Schützenfest
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A Schützenfest is a traditional festival. It is a kind of fair featuring shooting match. At a Schützenfest contestants compete their shooting abilities for example by shooting at a wooden bird. The winner of the Competition is the 'Schützenkönig' until the next Schützenfest. In Germany a Schützenfest is celebrated in many villages and Towns once a year in the summer. The world's biggest Schützenfest takes part in Hannover, Germany every year.
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[edit] Australia
[edit] Germany
- Biberach an der Riß, Baden-Württemberg
- Hannover, Lower Saxony
- Hövelhof, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Oestinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Rietberg, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Salzkotten, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Balve, North Rhine-Westphalia
[edit] Switzerland
Schützenfeste played a central role in the Old Swiss Confederacy, during the 15th century, participants shooting the crossbow, contributing significantly to the coherence between the individual cantons. The Schützenfest of 1849 in Aarau figures prominently in Gottfried Kellers Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten, where Keller portrays the shooting clubs as vital for the preservation of direct democracy in the young Swiss federal state.
Eidgenössische (federal) Schützenfeste are organized by the Schweizerischer Schützenverein since 1824.
- 1834 Zurich
- 1838 St. Gallen
- 1843 Chur
- 1849 Aarau
- 1861 Stans
- 1867 Schwyz
- 1874 St. Gallen
- 1885 Berne Kirchenfeld
- 1890 Frauenfeld
- 1901 Lucerne
- 1904 St. Gallen
- 1907 Zurich
- 1910 Berne Wankdorffeld
- 1924 Aarau
- 1929 Bellinzona
- 1940 Lucerne
- 1947 Chur
- 1954 Lausanne
- 1958 Biel
- 1963 Zurich
- 1969 Thun
- 1972 Biel
- 1977 Zurich
- 1985 Chur
- 1990 Winterthur
- 1995 Thun
- 2000 Bière
- 2005 Frauenfeld
