{{Short description|Canton of the Helvetic Republic}} {{Multiple issues| {{No footnotes|date=February 2026}} {{One source|date=February 2026}} }} {{coord missing|Switzerland}}
{{Infobox Former Subdivision |native_name = ''Kanton Linth'' |conventional_long_name = Canton of Linth |common_name = Linth | |subdivision = Canton |nation = Helvetic Republic |status_text = Canton of the Helvetic Republic | |year_start = 1798 |year_end = 1803 | |event_pre = Helv. Rep. proclaimed |date_pre = April 12, 1798 |event_start = Canton established |date_start = June 17 |event_end = Helv. Rep. disestablished |date_end = February 19, 1803 | |p1 = Canton of Glarus |image_p1 = 20px|Glarus |p2 = Canton of Schwyz |image_p2 = 20px|Schwyz |p3 = County of Uznach |image_p3 = 20px|Uznach |p4 = County of Toggenburg |image_p4 = 20px|Toggenburg |p5 = County of Werdenberg |image_p5 = 20px|Werdenberg <!-- only 5 supported by template |p6 = County of Sargans |image_p6 = 20px|Sargans |p7 = Imperial Abbey of Pfäfers |image_p7 = 20px|Pfäfers Abbey |p8 = Lordship of Sax |image_p8 = 20px |p9 = Vogtei of Gams |image_p9 = 20px|Gams / Hohensax |p10 = Vogtei of Windegg |image_p10 = 20px|Windegg --> |s1 = Canton of St. Gallen |image_s1 = 20px|Canton of St. Gallen |s2 = Canton of Glarus |image_s2 = 20px|Glarus |s3 = Canton of Schwyz |image_s3 = 20px|Schwyz | |image_map = Kantone Linth und Saentis.png |image_map_caption = Cantons of Säntis (orange) and Linth (green) | |capital = Glarus }} '''Linth''' was a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, consisting of Glarus and its subject County of Werdenberg, the Höfe and March districts of Schwyz and the Züricher subject Lordship of Sax, along with a handful of shared territories. Its capital was Glarus. The canton was named after the Linth river.
==Administration== The canton contained approximately 78,500 inhabitants. Like all the cantons of the Helvetic Republic, Linth was established and administered on a French Revolutionary 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, 25 electors, approx. 9,800 inhabitants * Schwanden: ::capital Schwanden, 29 electors, approx. 10,100 inhabitants * Glarus: ::capital Glarus, 38 electors, 12,700 inhabitants * Schänis (Gaster): ::capital Schänis, 29 electors, 11,900 inhabitants * Rapperswil: ::capital Rapperswil, 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 (1799), Niklaus Heer (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 War of the Second Coalition, with serious effects on the local economy.
The mainly-Roman Catholic 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, rather than any of the ''Dreizehn Orte'', and even though all citizens of the republic had equal rights. The canton sided only very reluctantly with the French Revolutionary Army. Initial fervour for public education waned as the pressure from the central government was relaxed.
Upper Toggenburg was transferred to the canton of Säntis in 1801, but the canton as a whole existed until the Act of Mediation on March 10, 1803.
[[Image:Ostschweiz1798.png|thumb|300px|left|Eastern Switzerland in 1798, with shared territories in grey and associate members of the Confederacy outlined ---- {{legend|#8ecf72| 20px|Glarus Canton of Glarus and the County of Werdenberg}} {{legend|#d87cbb| 20px|Schwyz Canton of Schwyz}} {{legend|#d8d67e| 20px|Zürich Canton of Zürich and Lordship of Sax}} {{legend|#de9713| 20px|Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden}} {{legend|#deb92b| 20px|Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden}} {{legend|#d5d5d5| 20px|Switzerland Shared territories of the Confederacy}} ---- {{legend|#e8f68a| 20px|Abbey of St. Gall Imperial Abbey of St. Gall}} {{legend|#f88f3d| 20px|Free Imperial City of St. Gallen Free Imperial City of St. Gallen}} {{legend|#f7c77a| 20px|Three Leagues Three Leagues}} ]]{{clear|left}}
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