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    The Lordship of Sax-Forstegg was a territory in the Alpine Rhine Valley, including the settlements of Sennwald and Altstätten, now part of the canton of...
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    Forstegg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Sennwald of the Canton of St Gallen in Switzerland. It was built around 1200 by the Barons of...
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    Abbey, Sargans and the independent lordships (bailiwicks) of Rheintal, Sax-Forstegg, Hohensax, Werdenberg, Windegg and Uznach. In April 1798, the territories...
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    County of Sax-Forstegg to Zurich. The last of the family of the Hohensax, Christoph Friedrich (1620–1633), also sold the rest of the Sax-Forstegg County...
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    Manfred [in German] (2016), "Drachen statt Hexen in der Freiherrschaft Sax-Forstegg", Werdeberger Jahrbuch, 29: 98–105 Wyss, Johann Rudolf (1817a). Reise...
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    Glarus and Schwyz; became a confederal condominium in 1483. Barony of Sax-Forstegg – from 1458 by treaty with Zürich; annexed by Zürich in 1615 Stein am...
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    of Hohensax resided in the nearby Forstegg castle at Salez. In 1640, the ruin passed to the barony of Sax-Forstegg, one of the constituent parts of the...
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    protectorates: Engelberg Abbey Republic of Gersau City of Rapperswil Barony of Sax-Forstegg County of Werdenberg The Helvetic Republic also annexed two territories...
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    was partitioned by the cantons of Fribourg and Bern. The Lordship of Sax-Forstegg, which held an associate status due to a 1458 treaty with Zurich, would...
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  • Brandis. 1719 Creation of Liechtenstein. Bendern - Salez 1458 Lords of Sax-Forstegg ally with Switzerland, border between Switzerland and Brandis. 1719 Creation...
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