Wileramt
The Wileramt was an administrative district in the old landscape of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen . The old landscape was originally divided into the Oberamt and the Unteramt , the latter consisting only of the Wileramt.
The Wileramt included the twelve lower courts of Zuzwil , Lenggenwil - Thurstuden , Niederhelfenschwil , Zuckenriet , Niederbüren , Oberbüren , Schneckenbund , Thurlinden , Rickenbach , Berggericht , Hüttenswil and Wängi . The latter four were entirely in Thurgau , Thurlinden partly. In Thurgau, the abbey was in a different legal position than in the princes of St. Gallen and only had individual rights such as team rights, collature rights and lower jurisdiction , although the legal status of the abbot was not the same in all Thurgau places. In a treaty of 1501, the boundaries to the Landgraviate of Thurgau were set, which are still the cantonal border today.
The sub-office was headed by a conventual as governor who supported the imperial bailiff as a secular official. The governor had his seat in the court at Wil . The city of Wil had its own government or palace council, which had a certain legislative and judicial power, but was also dependent on St. Gallen. The Palatinate Council of Wil handled the appellations from the village courts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Stephan Staub: Jus Statutarium veteris Territorii Principalis Monasterii Sancti Galli. A contribution to the legal history of the monastery and canton of St. Gallen Dissertation No. 1043 at the University of St. Gallen , 1988 (PDF; 4.8 MB)
- ^ Walter Müller: The legal sources of the canton of St. Gallen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, 1974. (PDF; 14.5 MB)
- ↑ The Princely Land. On wilnet, city encyclopedia of the city of Wil, accessed on March 13, 2020
- ↑ a b Beat Bühler: Unteramt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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