Neuamt

Neuamt was a bailiwick (Obervogtei) of the Zürichgau, a subject territory of Zürich within
the Old Swiss Confederacy, from 1442 to 1798.

The bailiwick was detached from the County of Kyburg as the latter was given to emperor
Frederick III to ensure his support in the Old Zürich War. The territories of Kyburg left of the
Glatt river were retained by Zürich, and were not re-attached to Kyburg when the county was
re-purchased from the Habsburg ten years later. The bailiwick was administered by two reeves
(Obervögte) residing in Zürich.

The former bailiwick now forms part of the Zürcher Unterland within the canton of Zürich,
forming a strip of land west of the Glatt river with a width between tree and ten kilometres,
including territory now in the municipalities of: Weiach, Stadel, Neerach, Hochfelden, Höri,
Coat of arms (16th
Niederglatt, Niederhasli, Regensdorf (Adlikon). Ennethöri was a settlement east of the Glatt,
century);[1] its crescent was
attached to the Neuamt in 1667/89. taken up in the modern
municipal coats of arms of

References Niederglatt, Neerach and

Stadel.
1. geteilt von Blau mit gestürztem goldenem Halbmond und von Gold mit zwei roten
Rosen ("per fess azure a crescent reversed or and of the second two roses
gules") Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, vol. V, p. 243.

Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen, I. Abteilung:Die Rechtsquellen des Kantons Zürich.Neue Folge, Zweiter
Teil: Rechte der Landschaft.Band 1: Thomas Weibel: Das Neuamt. Aarau 1996 (ssrq-sds-fds.ch).
Thomas Weibel: Historische Kurzbeschreibungen der Siedlungen im Neuamt.Zürich 1995 (ssrq-sds-fds.ch).
Thomas Weibel: Neuamt in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
"Entry". Zedlers Universallexikon. 24. p. 15.

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