Mountain gymnastics festival
A mountain gymnastics festival or mountain sports festival is a predominantly sporty and community-based open-air event that takes place on a topographically significant hill or mountain. Mountain gymnastics festivals originated in the first half of the 19th century. They are considered a milestone in the gymnastics movement , whose initiator is Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , who is therefore also known as the gymnastics father.
Prelude
The fact that suitable mountain peaks became a magnet for gymnastics events was historically based on the fact that during the time of the Napoleonic occupation protest rallies took place on German mountain peaks and bonfires that were visible from afar were lit there after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) was the main speaker at an event on the Großer Feldberg in Taunus ( Hesse ), which took place on October 18, 1814 with thousands of participants to celebrate victory in the Wars of Liberation. The Hanau gymnasts report on their first gymnastics excursion on the Großer Feldberg in 1817. In 1827, gymnasts from Offenbach am Main organized gymnastics games for young gymnasts on the Brunhildisfelsen (formerly: Brunhildenfels) on the summit plateau of the Großer Feldberg in Taunus.
Gymnastics clubs took up the previously unusual venue as a suggestion to use mountain peaks as a destination for extensive gymnastics excursions and hikes. At that time it was a much bigger challenge than it is today to climb mountain peaks, because tourism and the corresponding infrastructure did not exist.
To stand above things on mountain peaks, to experience a feeling of freedom, to feel the sublime, great and mighty (of nature), to view the widely visible landscape as a unity, gave the company a political symbolism at the time. In addition, there was the particularly good feeling of having mastered the challenge of the ascent to the mountain summit together. This can also be applied synonymously to the political goals of the gymnastics movement .
The gymnastics movement that emerged at the beginning of the 19th century was due in large part to a desired strengthening of efforts to fight freedom against the French occupation of German territory. As a result, gymnastics was intended to strengthen the youth's ability to defend themselves while strengthening their (patriotic) sense of community. In addition, there are links between the gymnastics movement and the German Revolution of 1848/49 .
The active gymnast, cartographer , topographer and bookseller Friedrich August Ravenstein (1809–1881) from Frankfurt am Main , who later founded the Frankfurt Gymnastics Community (1833), the Frankfurt Gymnastics Institute (1838) and the Taunus Club (1868) and was the Frankfurt gymnastics father became known, wanted with the help of a so-called "Commission for the construction of a house on the Feldberg" to build a youth and hiking home as well as a lookout tower for the gymnasts. The need to generate financial resources for this was the initial spark for the first German mountain gymnastics festival, as such an event seemed suitable as an introduction to fundraising . For this idea, an invitation was invited on June 10, 1844 to "join together for a joint mountain excursion and visit to the Feldberg".
In the time of National Socialism , the "Jahn gymnastics" was used for propaganda purposes. To this day, the Turnerbund in Germany and Austria is ascribed a close relationship to the German national movement.
history
The first mountain gymnastics festival
The first ever mountain gymnastics festival, the Feldbergfest , took place on June 23, 1844. At that time, three political borders ran across the Great Feldberg plateau, that of the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel , that of the city of Frankfurt am Main and that of the Duchy of Nassau . Musicians and choirs opened the festival, gymnasts organized the first meeting in disregard of national borders. In doing so, they set a sign of German unity.
“ For the heart beats more freely on the mountain heights,
and the fountain of life flows fresher in every limb,
And more piously the spirit swings to holy closeness to God,
And happier a happy German song sounds! "
The Hanauer Gymnastics Society under August Schärttner (1817-1859) began after the speech with gymnastics demonstrations. At the beginning the gymnasts formed a circular snail formation. Then there was stone pushing, drawing rings, so-called ring mills and calisthenics. Five Turner pyramids were erected at the same time. At the end, a "live high" was brought out. Then the assembled went back down the mountain with a tinkling game.
The present poet Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) made positive comments about the Feldberg Festival. More than 6000 visitors and around 200 active gymnasts and a consistently positive response were rated as such a convincing demand that it was decided to repeat the event. Hikers , singers , riflemen , vigilantes and students and fraternity members were counted among the visitors . Since then, Hessen has been known as the land of mountain gymnastics festivals.
At the second Feldberg Festival in 1845 there were already 350 boys and 50 adult gymnasts, and the number of visitors rose to around 8,000. In 1846, 10,000 visitors, 600 singers and gymnasts from 15 clubs came. In 1847 there were only a maximum of 5,000 people due to adverse weather conditions, but in 1848 it was 10,000 again. A certificate from the Feldbergfest was received from 1847, which was awarded for successful stone throwing and running.
In the context of the political persecution of the fraternities and gymnasts that began after the failure of the German Revolution in 1848/49 through the era of reaction , the overall situation became increasingly difficult. This year, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel banned the Feldberg Festival. The gymnasts switched to the neighboring area at the Fuchstanz , an area between Großem Feldberg and Altkönig that was still unwooded at the time , as this was in the area of the Duchy of Nassau and was not prohibited by the local rulers.
In 1850, the planned replacement event for the Feldberg Festival on Wiesbaden's Neroberg was banned. On the Großer Feldberg, soldiers of the Electorate of Hesse kept their rifles in place to ensure that the gymnasts remained in Nassau territory. In 1851 the planned alternative event on the Schrenzer near Butzbach was also banned.
The gymnasts continued to hike on the Großer Feldberg. The foundation stone for the Feldberghaus was laid in 1859, the architect was Heinrich Velde . It was not until July 15, 1860, that the Feldberg festivals could be continued on the Großer Feldberg. On August 12 of the same year, the Feldberghaus was inaugurated as a hiking home with ten beds. In 1861 a Feldbergfest committee was founded. In the same year Ravenstein retired. For him, the work of the commission was done with the construction of the Feldberghaus. A realization of the observation tower is not in sight for the time being; it was not created until 1902.
First imitators
Appreciated by the gymnasts, the idea of the mountain gymnastics festival was also taken up in other regions from 1866 onwards. This year the Elm mountain gymnastics festival took place in Reitling near Braunschweig as the second German mountain gymnastics festival.
Disambiguation
The mountain gymnastics festivals or mountain sports festivals were sometimes explicitly referred to as such, often with reference to regional topography. Others, such as the exemplary Feldberg Festival, deliberately refrained from referring to gymnastics or sport by name . They were popular because they didn't want to exclude anyone. For example, the singers, hikers, riflemen, students and fraternity members were often involved in mountain gymnastics festivals in the past. Part of this tradition has been preserved at some mountain festivals to this day.
“ ... our mountain gymnastics festivals deliberately occupy a special position in gymnastics life. Away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and far from the often stimulating mass events and the shows, they are still popular festivals with an emphasis on competition for the gymnastics community at particularly scenic or historically significant sites in the homeland. "
The more general designation X-bergfest or Bergsportfest also makes sense from the point of view that most of the sporting disciplines represented in the competitions are no longer attributed to gymnastics in accordance with today's general understanding. The vast majority of the disciplines are now attributed to athletics , which is organized independently at club level by appropriate departments and at association level. Sometimes wrestling , volleyball and swimming competitions also took place at the mountain sports festivals, to which the same applies.
Events
number
In the period from 2007 to 2009, 45 mountain gymnastics festivals or mountain sports festivals were registered with the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB), eleven with the Austrian Gymnastics Federation and one in Italy ( South Tyrol ). In addition, there were other such events that were not registered with the DTB or ÖTB. All of these events took place in the warmer half of the year between May and October, mostly on an annual basis. The number of events in Switzerland cannot be quantified because they have not been named and therefore have not been registered as such by the Swiss Gymnastics Association (STV). However, a total of 3 gymnastics festivals took place between 2003 and 2016, with the name "Bergturnfest" in the name.
Age
The first and oldest German mountain gymnastics festival was the Feldbergfest (1844) on the Großer Feldberg im Taunus, Hesse, Germany.
size
The Gillerbergturnfest near Hilchenbach in Siegerland, Westphalia, Germany, with 1,865 active participants (2012) compared to 1,508 active participants (2011) and 2,213 active participants (2010) is considered to be the largest (with the most participants) mountain gymnastics festival in Germany .
The largest mountain gymnastics festival in Switzerland was the 2014 Mettauertal / Gansingen mountain gymnastics festival in the Bossenhaus area of the municipality of Mettauertal AG . It was organized for the district gymnastics association Fricktal and the district gymnastics association Brugg and counted 4,900 active people from 200 clubs (1,400 of them young people).
height
The Liezener Hütte mountain gymnastics festival in Liezen , Austria, at 1767 meters above sea level, is the highest mountain gymnastics festival in German-speaking countries .
quantity
Most of the mountain gymnastics festivals take place in the state of Hesse. In 1967 the Hessian Gymnastics Association recorded 21 mountain gymnastics festivals, in 2009 it was 19.
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| Feldberg Festival | 1844 |
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| Elm mountain gymnastics festival | 1866 |
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| Harkortbergfest | 1882 |
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| Kaiserberg Festival | 1883 |
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| Zistel mountain gymnastics festival | 1885 |
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| Wittekind mountain festival | 1891 |
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| Landskron mountain gymnastics festival | 1895 |
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| Meißner mountain gymnastics festival | 1897 |
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| Klütbergturnfest | 1901 |
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| Frankenstein mountain gymnastics festival | 1902 |
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| Neureuth mountain sports festival | 1902 |
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| Rhön gymnastics festival | 1904 |
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| Gillerberg Turn Festival | 1906 |
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| Süchteln mountain festival | 1906 |
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| Hoherodskopf mountain gymnastics festival | 1907 |
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| Augustusburger Bergfest | 1908 |
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| Blombergsportfest | 1911 |
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| Süchteln mountain festival | 1914 |
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| Odenwald mountain gymnastics festival | 1916 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Unter der Homburg | 1921 |
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| Loreley mountain gymnastics festival | 1921 |
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| Plesch mountain gymnastics festival | 1924 |
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| Rauschenberg gymnastics festival | 1924 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Liezener Hütte | 1925 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival under the gymnastics memorial | 1928 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Mensfelder Kopf | 1929 |
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| Gau-Bergfest at the Nunkirche | 1931 |
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| Iburg mountain festival | 1934 |
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| Jahn mountain gymnastics festival | 1935 |
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| Scheersberg Festival | 1935 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Sankt Anna am Lavantegg | 1937 |
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| Weidig mountain gymnastics festival | 1937 |
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| Ettelsberg gymnastics festival | 1938 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Hörstein | 19 ?? |
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| Greifenstein mountain gymnastics festival | 1946 |
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| Bielerbergturnfest | 1947 |
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| Auerbacher mountain gymnastics festival | 1948 |
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| Jauerling mountain gymnastics festival | 1948 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Bubenhäuser Höhe | 1949 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Kieselbronn | 1950 |
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| Lenne-Volme Mountain Festival | 1950 |
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| Kirkeler mountain gymnastics festival | 1951 |
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| Knüll mountain gymnastics festival | 1951 |
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| Lohrberg Festival | 1951 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Allendorf / Lumda | 1952 |
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| Gau mountain gymnastics festival in Central Hesse | 1952 |
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| Lautersee mountain sports festival | 1952 |
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| International Dachsberg gymnastics festival | 1953 |
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| Dreimärker mountain gymnastics festival | 1955 |
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| Hans-Luchs-Bergsportfest | 1955 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Traunsee | 1957 |
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| Bühl Mountain Festival | 1957 |
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| Wingertsberg Turn Festival | 1958 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival near Roth | 1958 |
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| Otzberg Turn Festival | 1960 |
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| Sensenstein mountain gymnastics festival | 1960 |
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| South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival | 1961 |
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| Mountain sports festival Ortenburg | 1963 |
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| Wildensee mountain gymnastics festival | 1963 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival In der Almond | 1964 |
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| Kampstein mountain gymnastics festival | 1965 |
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| Adenstedter mountain gymnastics festival | 1969 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Kohlreith | 1969 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Ratschen Micheldorf | 1978 |
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| Hürbener Bergfest | 1980 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival on the vineyard | 1988 |
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| Kainbach mountain gymnastics festival | 1993 |
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| Iron Gate mountain gymnastics festival | 1995 |
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| Lützelhäuser mountain gymnastics festival | 1999 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Piesting | 19 ?? |
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| Wildegg mountain gymnastics festival | 19 ?? |
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| Bisamberg youth mountain gymnastics festival | 19 ?? |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Hellikon | 2003 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival Mettauertal / Gansingen | 2014 |
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| Mountain gymnastics festival in Braunwald | 2016 |
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organization
Volunteering
The preparation and implementation of mountain gymnastics festivals or mountain sports festivals requires a lot of effort. They are mostly carried out with a large number of voluntary helpers. As a rule, the helpers come from the clubs and groups involved, while an individual club is usually the organizer in cooperation with the regionally responsible Turngau , possibly also in consultation with the municipal sports office or similar municipal offices. The local or regional medical services offer support for first aid and food . Sometimes the volunteer fire brigades or the technical relief organization ensure the supply of drinking water.
Attendees
The conditions of participation for these events are different. Some are aimed at children and adolescents, others also at adult athletes, sometimes also seniors. The mountain sports festival in Ortenberg, for example, is open to all countries, i.e. for participants from Bavaria . Bühl-Bergfest, Loreley-Bergturnfest and Sensenstein-Bergturnfest, for example, are open to the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB). Other events are reserved for the associations of the responsible or organizing Turngau. The South Tyrolean Mountain Gymnastics Festival , for example, has international members from four countries . The International Dachsberg Turn Festival in Baden-Württemberg , the Jahn Mountain Turn Festival and the Elm Mountain Turn Festival in Lower Saxony or the Liezener Hut Mountain Turn Festival also allow participants from other countries.
Sports disciplines
The mountain gymnastics festivals offer different competition disciplines, some of which are favored by local conditions. Two tendencies are noticeable: on the one hand, classic old disciplines from the early days of the gymnastics movement are still being carried out, on the other hand, modern sports are gaining in importance. Some of the organizers try the balancing act between tradition and modernity, others have decided entirely in favor of modernity. Today, the following disciplines are offered at mountain gymnastics festivals and mountain sports festivals:
- Ball games
- Beach volleyball , fistball , soccer , handball , kin-ball , bounce ball , ring tennis , dodgeball , volleyball
- Disabled sports
- Leg hooking
- biathlon
- Egg running
- Fitness test for everyone
- Frisian fight
- Apparatus gymnastics
- gymnastics
- Cricket
- Running disciplines
- Runs over short and long distances, cross-country run , family relay run, geocaching , everyone's run, Nordic walking , orienteering , pendulum relay run over short and long distances, round relay , relay run , trail run , hiking
- Athletic three-way fight
- Athletic four-way fight
- Wheel gymnastics
- Wrestling
- Sack race
- swim
- Rope climbing
- Slackline
- Jump disciplines
- To dance
- Tug of war
- Trampoline exercise
- Throwing disciplines
- Basketball throwing , tree trunk throwing , Ger target throwing , hammer throwing , horseshoe target throwing, club target throwing, shot put , medicine ball throwing, punching ball throwing, sling ball, stone throwing, full ball throw
Honors
The best placed in the competitions receive certificates , trophies, hiking prizes , medals or plaques , souvenirs, badges of honor, wreaths of honor ( laurel wreath , oak leaf wreath or wreath made of appropriate art material), flags, etc.
Supporting program
Even at the first mountain gymnastics festival on the Großer Feldberg in the Taunus, the supporting program played an important role in the course of the event. Depending on the prevailing conditions at the respective event location and an analysis of the potential, well-developed concepts provide a large number of possible highlights. There are basically no limits to the imagination - games, sports, fun and communal experience are always the focus. Tent camps , campfires , folk dancing , singing , rope gardens / rope parks, climbing walls , show performances and open-air concerts are also some of the things that count. At a number of mountain gymnastics festivals, it is customary for an ecumenical prayer to take place before the start of the competitions.
Sponsorship
Attractive events for a larger group of people are not available for free. Attractive highlights, handouts, websites, barriers, signs, flags, banners, stands, rope gardens or rope parks, climbing walls and all the other features that the organizers want to offer the active and visitors are partly due to the entry fees charged, and partly made possible by committed sponsors. There are individuals, local medium-sized companies, credit institutes, but also some large companies that feel committed to popular sport or the population. Workers, employees or managing directors of these companies who are related to the respective event often act as door openers.
documentation
Mountain gymnastics festivals and mountain sports festivals are among the most poorly documented subject areas in gymnastics and sports. As a result, tendencies that have developed over many decades can usually only be traced in fragments, and many details are completely lost. Some mountain gymnastics festivals no longer take place today, for example the Belchen Mountain Festival on the Belchen in the Black Forest , which existed until 1955. Most mountain gymnastics festivals do not have their own web presence, and many internet offers from the lower association level and the clubs are inadequate. The history of the individual events, text, photo and video documentaries are mostly not even published online by the organizers. Statistics on the number of participants, their age structure and their regional or national origin are usually not collected, the tenders often lack essential details on the sports and disciplines offered. Many of the events are not reported to the responsible sports associations, so that no information is available there either. Even the city and community archives lack appropriate material because the organizers do not include them in their deliberations and concepts, if they develop such at all. In most cases, the websites of the cities and municipalities do not refer to the local mountain gymnastics festivals or mountain sports festivals, sometimes not even the local media.
distribution
Mountain gymnastics festivals and mountain sports festivals occur in Germany, Italy (South Tyrol) and Austria and some of them still take place today. In Switzerland, on the other hand, there is no ongoing tradition of mountain gymnastics, but from 2003 to 2016 a total of 3 gymnastics festivals with the name Bergturnfest took place with clubs of the Swiss Gymnastics Association (Hellikon AG 2003, Mettauertal / Gansingen AG 2014 and Braunwald GL 2016). Another exception is the mountain gymnastics festival of the Ebnat-Kappel gymnastics club in the canton of St. Gallen on the 150th anniversary of the club. In addition, due to the topographical conditions, many gymnastics festivals take place among the confederates on hills, the Alb and on mountains, for example wrestling festivals (traditional Swiss wrestling, often combined with stone throwing).
Germany
The 45 mountain gymnastics festivals or mountain sports festivals registered with the German Gymnastics Federation in 2007 and 2009 (as of March 16, 2009):
Baden-Württemberg
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Responsible association: Badischer Turner-Bund e. V. , Karlsruhe
- July: International Dachsberg gymnastics festival , Dachsberg- Wolpadingen, organizer: Dachsberg gymnastics and sports club, Markgräfler Hochrhein-Turngau
- September: Mountain gymnastics festival Kieselbronn, Heinloch sports area, Baden-Württemberg , Organizer: Turnverein Kieselbronn, Turngau Pforzheim-Enz
Swabia
Responsible association: Schwäbischer Turnerbund e. V. , Stuttgart
- July: Bühl-Bergfest, Unterlenningen , Swabian Alb , Baden-Württemberg , Organizer: Turnverein Unterlenningen 1898
- September: Hürbener Bergfest, Hürben , organizer: Turnverein Hürben 1913, Turngau Ostwuerttemberg
Bavaria
Responsible association: Bayerischer Turnverband e. V. , Munich
- July: Mountain Sports Festival Ortenburg, Ortenburg , Bavaria , Organizer: ASV Ortenburg, Turngau Unterdonau / Lower Bavaria
- July: Blombergsportfest, organizer: Turnverein Bad Tölz 1866
Hesse
Responsible association: Hessischer Turnverband e. V. , Frankfurt am Main
- May: Lohrbergfest in Frankfurt am Main , organizer: Turnverein Seckbach 1875 , Turngau Frankfurt
- May: Mountain gymnastics festival Bubenhäuser Höhe near Rauenthal, organizer: Turngau Süd-Nassau
- May: Odenwald mountain gymnastics festival on the Haufenstein near Wallbach, organizer: Turngau Odenwald
- June: Weidig-Bergturnfest near Butzbach , Organizer: Weidig-Bergturnfest-Committee, TSV Butzbach
- July: Feldbergfest near Oberursel (Hochtaunuskreis), organizer: Feldbergfestausschuss, Turngau Feldberg
- July: Rhönturn Festival near Gersfeld , Organizer: Rhönturn Festival Committee, Turngau Fulda-Werra-Rhön
- September: Meißner mountain gymnastics festival, Hoher Meißner sports field, Hausener Hute, organizer: Turngau Werra
- August: Mountain gymnastics festival Mensfelder Kopf, organizer: Turngau Mittellahn
- September: Frankenstein Mountain Turn Festival near Mühltal , Nieder-Beerbach district / Frankenstein Castle , organizer: Turnverein 1894 Nieder-Beerbach, Turngau Main-Rhine
- September: Mountain Turn Festival Allendorf / Lumda, Allendorf / Lunda , Organizer: Turngau Mittelhessen
- September: Greifenstein-Bergturnfest, organizer: TuSpo 1926 Greifenstein, Turngau Lahn-Dill
- September: Ettelsberg-Turnfest, organized by: Turnverein Jahn Willingen 1913, Turngau Waldeck
- September: Hoherodskopf mountain gymnastics festival near Schotten in Vogelsberg , organizer: Turngau Wetterau-Vogelsberg, Turngau Mittelhessen
- September: Mountain gymnastics festival on the Dreimärker near Biedenkopf-Weifenbach, organizer: Turnverein Weifenbach, Turngau Oberlahn-Eder
- September: Lützelhausen mountain gymnastics festival, organized by: Turnverein Lützelhausen 1913, Turngau Kinzig
- September: Gau-Bergturnfest Mittelhessen, organizer: Turnverein Treis 1959, Turngau Mittelhessen
- September: Loreley mountain gymnastics festival near St. Goarshausen , organizer: Loreley gymnastics and youth home, Turngau Süd-Nassau
- September: Sensenstein mountain gymnastics festival near Kassel , organizer: Turngau North Hesse
- September: Wingertsberg Turnfest, organizer: Turngemeinde Dietzenbach 1886, Turngau Offenbach-Hanau
Lower Saxony
Responsible association: Niedersächsischer Turner-Bund e. V. , Hanover
- June: Adenstedter Bergturnfest, organizer: TSV Adenstedt
- June: Jahn-Bergturnfest on the Bückeberg near Obernkirchen , organizer: Jahn-Bergturnfest committee
- August: Elm-Bergturnfest on the Tetzelstein im Elm between Schöppenstedt and Königslutter , organizer: Elm-Bergturnfest Förderverein
- September: Mountain gymnastics festival under the Homburg, organized by: Turnverein von 1887 Stadtoldendorf, Turnkreis Holzminden
- September: Klütbergturnfest near Hameln , organizers: MTV Rohrsen, TC Hameln, VfL Hameln from 1849
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland
Responsible association: Rheinischer Turnerbund e. V. , Bergisch Gladbach
- May: Kaiserbergfest, organizer: Kaiserbergfest Duisburg 1883
- June: Süchtelner Bergfest near Viersen, organizer: General sports club Einigkeit Süchteln 1860
Westphalia
Responsible association: Westfälischer Turnerbund e. V. , Hamm
- June: Gillerberg Turn Festival near Hilchenbach, organizer: Turngemeinde Grund from 1909, Siegerland Turngau 1886
- June: Lenne-Volme mountain festival Schalksmühle, organizer: Turn- und Spielverein Stöcken-Dahlerbrück 1885, Schalksmühler Turnverein, Turn- und Spielverein Linscheid-Heedfeld 1914
- NN: Harkortbergfest, Wetter / Ruhr, organizer: Turngemeinschaft Harkort-Wetter 1861
- September: Iburg-Bergfest near Bad Driburg , organizer: Turnverein Jahn Bad Driburg, Turngau East Westphalia
- September: Wittekindsbergfest near Bad Oeynhausen and Porta Westfalica , organizer: Minden gymnastics district
Rhineland-Palatinate
Middle Rhine
Responsible association: Turnverband Mittelrhein e. V., Koblenz
- August: Gau-Bergfest An der Nunkirche, Sargenroth, organizer: Turngau Hunsrück
- September: Loreley mountain gymnastics festival near St. Goarshausen, organizer: Loreley gymnastics and youth home, Turngau Süd-Nassau
Palatinate
Responsible association: Pfälzer Turnerbund e. V. , Annweiler
- May: Mountain gymnastics festival under the gymnastics memorial on the Wallberg near Deidesheim, organizer: Turngau Rhein-Limburg
- June: Mountain gymnastics festival on the vineyard in St. Martin, organizer: TuS St. Martin, Speyergau
- June: Mountain gymnastics festival In der Almond in Weisenheim am Berg, organizer: Turngau Rhein-Limburg
Rheinhessen
Responsible association: Rheinhessischer Turnerbund e. V. , Mainz
- September: Landskron-Bergturnfest, Nierstein-Oppenheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Organizer: Turnverein 1846 Oppenheim
Saarland
Responsible association: Saarländischer Turnerbund e. V., Saarbrücken
Schleswig-Holstein
Responsible association: Schleswig-Holsteinischer Turnverband e. V. , Trappenkamp
- July: Scheersbergfest, Scheersberg , Quern , Schleswig-Holstein , Organizer: International Training Center Jugendhof
District
Sports Association Schleswig-Flensburg Sports Youth Schleswig-Flensburg
Italy (South Tyrol)
September: South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival, Brixen , organizer: SSV Brixen
Austria
The mountain gymnastics festivals registered with the Austrian Gymnastics Federation in 2009:
June: Plesch mountain gymnastics festival, Styria, organizer: Turnverein Jahn Gratwein
June: Jauerling mountain gymnastics festival, Jahnturnwiese
June: Youth mountain gymnastics festival Bisamberg, Bisamberg , Elisabeth-Höhe, organizer: ÖTB Vienna
July: Mountain gymnastics festival at Wildensee, Wildensee (Salzkammergut) , Gmunden , organizer: Turnverein Gmunden at Wildensee in the Dead Mountains
August: Kampstein-Bergturnfest, organizer: Gymnastics Club Aspang 1886
August: Mountain gymnastics festival Piesting, Markt Piesting , organizer: Turnverein Markt Piesting 1896
August: Mountain gymnastics festival at the Liezener Hütte, Liezener Hütte , Liezen , organizer: SC Liezen
September: Bergurnfest Kohlreith, organizer: Gymnastics Club Neulengbach 1888
September: Mountain gymnastics festival Sankt Anna am Lavantegg, Sankt Anna am Lavantegg , organizer: Turnverein Judenburg 1864
September: Mountain Turn Festival Wildegg near Wildegg-Sittendorf, organizer: ÖTB Vienna
October: Zistel mountain gymnastics festival on the Zistel Alm near Gaisberg, organizer: Salzburger Turnverein 1861
October: Mountain gymnastics festival Iron Gate on the Hohen Lindkogel , organizer: ÖTB Jahn Baden
Switzerland
- 2003, 21. – 22. June: Mountain Turn Festival Hellikon June, Canton Aargau , Organizer: TV Hellikon
- 2014, 20.-22. June: Mountain gymnastics festival Mettauertal / Gansingen , Bossenhaus , Canton Aargau , organizers: TSV Mettauertal, TSV Gansingen as well as men's and women's gymnastics club Wil
- 2016, 13.-14. August: Mountain Turn Festival Braunwald , Canton Glarus , Organizer: DTV Braunwald
literature
- Gasch, Rudolf : Handbook of the entire gymnastics , Pichler, Vienna and Leipzig, 1928
- Beck, Franz Wilhelm: Deutsches Turnertum , Limpert, Frankfurt am Main, 1953
- Meß, Paul: The Feldberg Turn Festival , Marburg 1958
- Beck, Franz Wilhelm: Mountain gymnastics festivals in Hessenland, contribution to Hessian gymnastics history , extended special print from: Der Hessische Turnverband, Handbuch, 1968, 58 pp.
- Pfister, Gertrud: German oaks, strong muscles, sporty women, collective symbolism of gymnastics and sports advertising , in: Merwe, Floris van der (Ed.): Sport as Symbol, Symbols in Sport . Proceedings of the 3rd ISHPES Congress in Cape Town 1995, Academia, Sankt Augustin, 1996, pp. 153-169, ISBN 3-88345-738-8
- Krüger, Michael: Fahnen und Farben , in: Merwe, Floris van der (Ed.): Sport as Symbol, Symbols in Sport , Academia, Sankt Augustin, 1996, pp. 283-291, ISBN 3-88345-738-8
- Festschrift for the 150th Feldberg Festival , Feldberg Festival Committee 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summit plateau of the Großer Feldberg in Taunus during a Feldberg festival , undated on: alt-idstein.info
- ↑ Snail course sketch on: alt-idstein.info
- ↑ Feldbergfest certificate from 1845 on: alt-idstein.info
- ^ Antje Fenner & Arnd Krüger : The history of the mountain gymnastics festivals in Lower Saxony, in: Hans Langenfeld (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Part 1: 19th century. (= NISH series of publications, vol. 13) Hoya: NISH 1999, 127 - 135.
- ↑ A mountain gymnastics festival in the Fricktal. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Mountain gymnastics festival in Braunwald 13./14. August 2016 - glarus24.ch. In: www.glarus24.ch. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Gillerbergturnfest results 2012, statistics at: giller.info
- ↑ Mountain Turn Festival 2014 Mettauertal / Gansingen
- ^ District gymnastics association Fricktal
- ↑ District Gymnastics Association Brugg
- ↑ The mountain gymnastics festival in the Bossenhaus became a folk festival. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ The highest mountain gymnastics festival at: liezen.at
- ↑ The mountain gymnastics festivals in Hessen at: alt-idstein.info
- ↑ Mountain gymnastics festivals in Hessen at: htv-online.de
- ↑ Ecumenical prayer before the Gillerberg Turn Festival at: hilchenbach.de
- ↑ Mountain gymnastics festivals in Germany 2009 at: dtb-online.de (PDF file; 39 kB)
- ↑ Mountain gymnastics festival calendar at: oetb.at
- ↑ Bergturnfest for the 150th anniversary in: Tagblatt . September 10, 2008
- ↑ Mountain Turn Festival Kieselbronn on: turngau-pforzheim-enz.de
- ^ Lohrbergfest on: tv-seckbach.de
- ↑ Lohrbergfest result lists on: turngau-frankfurt.de
- ↑ Result lists Odenwälder Bergturnfest on: turngau-odenwald.de
- ↑ Feldbergfest on: feldbergfest.de
- ↑ Photos from the Rhönturnfest on: tg-fwr.de
- ↑ Meißner-Bergturnfest on: turngau-werra.de
- ↑ Frankenstein-Bergturnfest on: tv-nieder-beerbach.de
- ↑ Greifenstein-Bergturnfest on: tv-merkenbach.de
- ↑ Bergturnfest Auf dem Dreimärker at: turngau-oberlahn-eder.de
- ↑ Calendar of events at: turngau-mittelhessen.de
- ↑ Wingertsbergturnfest on: turngau-offenbach.de
- ^ Antje Fenner & Arnd Krüger : The history of the mountain gymnastics festivals in Lower Saxony, in: Hans Langenfeld (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony. Part 1: 19th century. (⇐ Series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Vol. 13) Hoya: NISH 1999, 127 - 135.
- ↑ Jahn-Bergturnfest on: jahn-bergturnfest.de
- ↑ Elm-Bergturnfest at: helmstedt.de (PDF file; 368 kB)
- ↑ Kaiserberg hard on kaiserbergfest-duisburg.de
- ↑ Gillerberg Turnfest at: giller.info
- ^ Iburg-Bergfest on: tv-bad-driburg.de
- ↑ Wittekindsbergfest on: turn district-minden.de
- ↑ Scheersbergfest at: scheersbergfest.de
- ↑ Photos from the Scheersbergfest at: scheersberg.de
- ↑ / Gymnastics Club Jahn Gratwein
- ↑ Vienna Youth Mountain Turn Festival at: oetbwien.at
- ^ Turnverein Judenburg 1864 on: turnverein-judenburg.at.tf
