Hunting route

The hunting bag , often just a short distance , called the whole on the designated hunting imposed (in the hunter language also: stretched ) hunting within a certain area and time period, and is synonymous with this meaning with hunting statistics. The hunting distance can serve as a relative measure and index of the population size as the catch success per area and time expenditure . The term of the (hunting) route is also used for the so-called route laying in accordance with hunting customs , deposited game after driven and driven hunts .

Route laying

For hunting traditions in the range Set includes the custom that the game of the daily distance is always placed on the right side of the body. There is an old interpretation that the right side is the “good side” - that is, laying on the right side of the body prevents the “earth demons” from entering the game. The game is arranged on the route in a certain order. The cloven-hoofed game on the route is broken fairly with breaking marks. Branches of fair wood species such as oak or spruce, which are stuck in the mouth of the hunted animal (hunter's language: Äser ), are considered a break in the hunting tradition . The shooter of the game receives the recognition Protect break - a branch, moistened with a little blood (welding) of the killed animal from him, which is supported by the successful hunter in the hatband. All game has a respective dead signal and is blown accordingly. Finally, the entire route is blown over with hunting and Halali .

Line lay after a driven hunt for wild boar
Stretching after a hunt for brown hares
Bavarian farmers after a driven hunt with a track consisting of deer, hare and fox, ca.1890
Hunters in Mecklenburg blowing the game down to death

Hunting routes

Germany

The annual hunting distance and hunting statistics are collected by the responsible hunting authorities of the federal states at the district level and then merged at the federal level.

Development of annual hunting routes for roe deer, wild boar and red deer in Germany between the hunting years (April 1 to March 31 of the following year) 1935/1936 and 2012/2013

Development of the annual hunting routes of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and fallow deer (Dama dama) in Germany between 1935 and 2009

Development of the annual hunting ranges of mouflon (Ovis aries musimon), sika deer (Cervus nippon) and chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) in Germany between 1935 and 2009

Current - hunting year 2017/18


Art	piece (Shooting including fallen game )
Red deer	76,794
Fallow deer	63.103
Sika deer	2,429
wild boar	836.865
deer	1,190,724
chamois	4,883
Mouflon	7,288
Brown hare	184,690
Wild rabbit	100,473
pheasant	76,731
partridge	1,879
Woodcock	8,570
Wild geese (different types)	95.394
Wild ducks (different types)	273.832
Wild pigeons (different types)	431.047
Red fox	426.224
Badger	75,000
Pine marten	6,595
Beech marten	52.191
Polecat	8,461
Weasel	4,069
racoon	172,549
Raccoon dog	31,245

Data: DJV

Historical - hunting year 1936/37


Art	piece	kg	Value in Reichsmarks
Moose	246	19,700	36,900
Red deer	56,960	2,734,100	3,987,200
Fallow deer	12,743	356,800	573,400
deer	643.364	7,720,400	10,293,800
Mouflon	188	4,500	6,600
chamois	955	30,600	28,700
wild boar	36,642	1,758,800	1,648,900
Brown hare	2,948,839	8,256,700	8,846,500
Wild rabbit	1,792,681	2,151,200	1,792,700
Red fox	218.229	-	2,182,300
Badger	18,206	-	182,100
pheasant	1,013,595	810.900	1,773,800
partridge	2,043,288	1,226,000	2,043,300
Wild ducks (different types)	378,674	302,900	473,300
Buzzards (different types)	28,969	-	-

In the hunting year 1936/1937 an area of 45.4 million hectares was permitted for hunting in Germany. The total value of the hunting route in 1936/1937 was 34,963,400 Reichsmarks.

Austria

Development of the annual hunting routes for roe deer, red deer, chamois and wild boar in Austria between 1955 and 2012

Current - hunting year 2017/18


Art	Launch	Fallen game
Red deer	61,545
deer	285.718	71,969
chamois	21,048
Capricorn	619
wild boar	40.297
Brown hare	94,245	27,351
Red fox	67,730
marten	22,822
Weasel	10,231
pheasant	50,775	9,415
partridge	2,412	339
Wild pigeons (different types)	14,910
Wild ducks (different types)	50,810

Data: Statistics Austria

Switzerland

Development of annual hunting routes for roe deer, chamois and red deer in Switzerland between the years in the period from around 1910 to 2000

Current - hunting year 2017


Art	piece (Shooting without falling game and special shooting)
deer	44,124
Red deer	14,546
chamois	11,578
wild boar	10,766
Capricorn	1,185
Sika deer	91
Fallow deer	1
Red fox	25,779
Badger	3,770
Pine marten	224
Beech marten	1,260
Raccoon dog	1
racoon	2
Brown hare	1,708
Mountain hare	971
Wild rabbit	5
Alpine marmot	5,073
muskrat	12
Nutria	5
Cottontail rabbit	43
Mallard	4,871

Data: Federal hunting statistics

literature

Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : "Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon", Augsburg 2000, keyword: Jagdstrecken, p. 437, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .

Web links

Commons : Wild (hunting) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Hunting route - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b route. In: Duden. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
^ Claus-Peter Lieckfeld: Tatort forest: Georg Meister and his fight for our forests . 2nd Edition. Westend, Frankfurt / Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86489-012-3 , p. 261 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2019]).
↑ Wolfgang Nentwig, Roland Brandl, Sven Bacher: Ecology compact . 3. Edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8274-2837-0 , p. 53 .
↑ Frank Tottewitz, Grit Greiser, Ina Martin, Johanna M. Arnold: track statistics in Germany - an important tool in wildlife management. (PDF) In: jagdverband.de. German Hunting Association, 2016, archived from the original on November 3, 2019 ; accessed on November 3, 2019 : "Route data are collected annually by the responsible hunting authorities of the federal states at the district level and merged at the Thünen Institute for Forest Ecosystems Eberswalde at the federal level."
^ Jörg Reutter: Hunting statistics of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In: lazbw.de. Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on November 3, 2019 ; accessed on November 3, 2019 .
↑ Infographic annual hunting route Federal Republic of Germany 2018. (PDF) In: Deutscher Jagdverband. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Hunt. In: Statistics Austria. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
↑ Hunting statistics. In: Federal hunting statistics. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .

[:0-1] route. In: Duden. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .

[2] Claus-Peter Lieckfeld: Tatort forest: Georg Meister and his fight for our forests . 2nd Edition. Westend, Frankfurt / Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86489-012-3 , p. 261 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2019]).

[3] Wolfgang Nentwig, Roland Brandl, Sven Bacher: Ecology compact . 3. Edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8274-2837-0 , p. 53 .

[4] Frank Tottewitz, Grit Greiser, Ina Martin, Johanna M. Arnold: track statistics in Germany - an important tool in wildlife management. (PDF) In: jagdverband.de. German Hunting Association, 2016, archived from the original on November 3, 2019 ; accessed on November 3, 2019 : "Route data are collected annually by the responsible hunting authorities of the federal states at the district level and merged at the Thünen Institute for Forest Ecosystems Eberswalde at the federal level."

[5] Jörg Reutter: Hunting statistics of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In: lazbw.de. Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on November 3, 2019 ; accessed on November 3, 2019 .

[6] Infographic annual hunting route Federal Republic of Germany 2018. (PDF) In: Deutscher Jagdverband. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .

[7] Hunt. In: Statistics Austria. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .

[8] Hunting statistics. In: Federal hunting statistics. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .