Vorort

The term is contrasted with Vorstadt, which describes a more densely populated area grown at the outline of a city centre.

With the 1798 establishment of the Helvetic Republic the Vororte were abolished and instead Aarau was made capital city, then Lucerne, then Bern.

After the Act of Mediation, the "Vorort of Switzerland" would rotate each year between the capital of Aarau and the cities of Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, Solothurn and Basel.

In 1815, the choice of Vororte was restricted to Zürich, Bern and Lucerne, who in turn served as biennial seat of government until 1847.

In 1848, Bern became the permanent seat of the Swiss Federal Government and thus the de facto capital of Switzerland.