High hunt
As High hunting is hunting for big game called.
Which game to upload, or small game mattered was historically dependent on the arbitrariness of the nobility , or the feudal regalia . Only "high animals" were allowed to hunt "high game". Citizens and farmers were only allowed to hunt small game, if at all.
After the regalia were abolished, large game counted
- Hairy game : bison, elk, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, roe deer, chamois, stone and wild boar as well as bears, wolves and lynxes.
- Game birds : capercaillie, black grouse, hazel deer , pheasants, swans, bustards, cranes, pelicans, eagle owls and eagles.
- The falcons used for hunting were also big game.
Today, both small game and large game are legally defined in the Federal Hunting Act .
literature
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, keyword: Hohe Jagd, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5