Linth was a

canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ente ...

of the

Helvetic Republic The Helvetic Republic (, , ) was a sister republic of France that existed between 1798 and 1803, during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was created following the French invasion and the consequent dissolution of the Old Swiss Confederacy, m ...

from 1798 to 1803, consisting of

Glarus , neighboring_municipalities= Glarus Nord, Glarus Süd, Muotathal (SZ), Innerthal (SZ) , twintowns= Wiesbaden-Biebrich (Germany) } Glarus (; gsw, Glaris; french: Glaris; it, Glarona; rm, Glaruna) is the capital of the canton of Glarus ...

and its subject

County of Werdenberg Werdenberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire, within the Duchy of Swabia, situated on either side of the Alpine Rhine, including parts of what is now St. Gallen (Switzerland), Liechtenstein, and Vorarlberg (Austria). It was partitioned fr ...

, the Höfe and

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districts of Schwyz and the Züricher subject

Lordship of Sax The noble family von Sax (originally ''de Sacco'') were a medieval noble family in eastern Switzerland. They owned estates and castles on both sides of the Alps in the modern cantons of St. Gallen, Graubünden and Ticino. The origin of the fami ...

, along with a handful of shared territories.

Administration

The canton contained approximately 78,500 inhabitants. Like all the cantons of the Helvetic Republic, Linth was established and administered on a

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ary model. Linth and was divided administratively into seven districts * Werdenberg: ::capital Werdenberg, 30 electors, approx. 10,500 inhabitants * Neu St. Johann: ::capital Neu St. Johann, 30 electors, approx. 11,600 inhabitants * Mels: ::capital

Mels Mels is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Sarganserland in the Seeztal, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. History Mels is first mentioned in 765 as ''Maile'' though this comes from a later copy of the original document. In ...

, 25 electors, approx. 9,800 inhabitants * Schwanden: ::capital Schwanden, 29 electors, approx. 10,100 inhabitants * Glarus: ::capital

, 38 electors, 12,700 inhabitants * Schänis ( Gaster): ::capital

Schänis Schänis is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. History Schänis is first mentioned in 972 as ''Schennines''. Until 1798 it was the capital of the Herrschaft of Gaster an ...

, 29 electors, 11,900 inhabitants * Rapperswil: ::capital

Rapperswil Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dial ...

, 29 electors, 11,800 inhabitants

Chronology

The brief tenure of office of the cantonal heads Joachim Heer (1798), Johann Jakob Heussi (1798–99),

Felix Christoph Cajetan Fuchs Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, ...

(1799),

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(1799–1802), and Franz Josef Büeler (1802–03) reflected the military and political turmoil plaguing the region, which was under French occupation from 1799, during the

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, with serious effects on the local economy. The mainly-

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canton acquired a strong aversion to the centralised nature of the government of the Helvetic Republic, even though the canton was mainly composed of territories previously subject to the

Old Swiss Confederation The Old Swiss Confederacy or Swiss Confederacy ( Modern German: ; historically , after the Reformation also , "Confederation of the Swiss") was a loose confederation of independent small states (, German or In the charters of the 14th centur ...

, rather than any of the ''

Dreizehn Orte The Old Swiss Confederacy began as a late medieval alliance between the communities of the valleys in the Central Alps, at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire, to facilitate the management of common interests such as free trade and to ensure t ...

'', and even though all citizens of the republic had equal rights. The canton sided only very reluctantly with the

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. Initial fervour for

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waned as the pressure from the central government was relaxed. Upper Toggenburg was transferred to the

canton of Säntis Säntis was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, consisting of the territory of St. Gallen, Appenzell, and Rheintal. Its capital was St. Gallen St. Gallen or traditionally St Gall, in German; it, San Gal ...

in 1801, but the canton as a whole existed until the

Act of Mediation The Act of Mediation () was issued by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic on 19 February 1803 establishing the Swiss Confederation. The act also abolished the previous Helvetic Republic, which had existed since the invasi ...

on March 10, 1803.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Linth Canton of Glarus Cantons of the Helvetic Republic Former cantons of Switzerland