31. He also acted as the Federal Chancellor after the resignation of Franz Josef Karl Amrhyn in the Sonderbund crisis. 32. Spichtig was seen as having pulled Obwalden into the Sonderbund , and he was driven out of office and politics. 33. With it, Fribourg undertook to leave the Sonderbund , to disarm its soldiers and to provide for the federal occupation troops. 34. In 1845 he was made secretary to Magistrate Constantin Siegwart-M�ller of Lucerne, who was the president of the Sonderbund . 35. The Diet ordered the Sonderbund dissolved, igniting a small-scale civil war against rural cantons were strongholds of pro-Catholic ultramontanism. 36. Fribourg has been the seat of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg since 1613 . ( See " Sonderbund ") 37. After the defeat of the Sonderbund troops in Gisikon on 23 November 1847 Uri withdrew from the alliance and surrendered on 28 November 1847. 38. This in turm prompted the conservative cantons, initially secret, to form the " Sonderbund " ( Special Union ) in December 1845. 39. In 1847, this led to the Sonderbund War and eventually in 1848 to the replacement of the Federal Treaty by the Federal Constitution. 40. On 12 January 1841, during the Sonderbund war, there was a battle between cantonal forces and local militia troops in the municipality.
