Fürstenland or Alte Landschaft is the name of a historical territory of the Swiss
canton of St. Gallen, corresponding to the modern districts of
St. Gallen (without the city proper),
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It was a subject territory of the
Abbey of St. Gallen
The Abbey of Saint Gall (german: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot w ...
until 1798.
Its population, known as the ''Gotteshausleute'', came into conflict with the Abbey after the
Swiss Reformation, during 1525–1531.
After the defeat of Zürich in the
Second War of Kappel, the Fürstenland was forced to return to Catholicism.
After the
French Revolution
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, the territory was granted increased autonomy in a treaty of 1795, and in 1797 additionally its own seal and the right to elect a local parliament.
On 14 February 1798, it constituted itself as a "Free Republic" (''Freie Republik der Landschaft St. Gallen''), which was absorbed into the
Canton of Säntis three months later.
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Abbey of Saint Gall
History of the canton of St. Gallen