Wing cap

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the wing cap as a component of shoe uppers, see Shoe: Components .

Four Pandurs , around 1742. Ensign and captain wear wing caps, the Pandur in the background a Kolpak with an extremely long cloth pouch.

The wing cap (also wing cap , Hungarian hat ) was a military headgear of the cavalry troops of the hussars and pandurs in the 18th century.

The wing cap consisted of a cylindrical , visorless hat made of black felt about 60 cm high, which was wrapped with a long, wide strip of cloth , the banderole , provided with the colors of the regiment . The banderole was untied on festive occasions and fluttered in the wind when riding.

In 1796 the designation Schackelhaube for the wing cap was introduced in Prussia . In the meantime, as in other armies, it had a front screen. The shako developed from it .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knötel, Herbert d. J. and Herbert Sieg: Handbuch der Uniformkunde. The military costume in its development up to the present , 6th edition. Status from 1937 (= "Knötel-Sieg"), Verlag Gerhard Schulz, Hamburg 1937, p. 31, with illustration