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[[File:Wappen Neuamt.png|thumb|upright|Coat of arms (16th century); its [[Crescent (heraldry)|crescent]] was taken up in the modern municpal coats of arms of [[Niederglatt]], [[Neerach]]  and  [[Stadel bei Niederglatt|Stadel]].]]
'''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 [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor|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 ([[Vogt|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 of:  [[Weiach]], [[Stadel bei Niederglatt|Stadel]], [[Neerach]], [[Hochfelden ZH|Hochfelden]], [[Höri ZH|Höri]], [[Niederglatt]], [[Niederhasli]], [[Regensdorf|Regensdorf (Adlikon)]].
[[Höri ZH|Ennethöri]] was a settlement east of the Glatt, attached to the Neuamt in 1667/89.

== References ==
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* 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 [http://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/online/ZH_NF_II_1/index.html#p_III (ssrq-sds-fds.ch)].
* Thomas Weibel: ''Historische Kurzbeschreibungen der Siedlungen im Neuamt.'' Zürich 1995 [http://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/online/ZH_NF_II_1_addendum/index.html#i_1 (ssrq-sds-fds.ch)].
* {{HLS|7831|Neuamt|author= Thomas Weibel}}
* {{Zedler Online|24|15|3|3|Neuamt}}  

[[Category:History of Zürich]]
[[Category:Glatt basin]]