Talschaft

Template:Short description In Swiss politics and the history of the Old Swiss Confederacy, a is the body of voting population in a certain valley. The grouping of voters by valley rather than municipality is a tradition harking back to before the establishment of the current administrative divisions with the foundation of Switzerland as a federal state in 1848. A will typically include voters of several municipalities. For example, the of Lauterbrunnen Valley includes the voting population of the municipalities of Lauterbrunnen, Wengen, Mürren, Stechelberg, Gimmelwald and Isenfluh. Similarly, the of Hasli consists of six municipalities, Gadmen, Guttannen, Hasliberg, Innertkirchen, Meiringen and Schattenhalb. In this case, the is coterminous with the Bernese district of Oberhasli.

Historically, is the traditional German translation of the Latin term in the Federal Charter of 1291, literally 'the people of the valley'. Thus, the enumeration of the Confederates,

is rendered as

"the people of the Uri, the entirety of the valley of Schwyz and the community of people of the of Unterwalden"

References

• Hans Stadler: Talschaft in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2013.

See also

• Reichsvogt
• Waldstätte
• Landvogtei (Switzerland)

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