Hunting lodge

This article explains the term. The district of Schmallenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, can be found under Jagdhaus (Schmallenberg) .

Jagdhütte is a redirect to this article. See also: hunters' huts .

Hunting lodge at Barnacken in the Teutoburg Forest

Hunting lodge or hunting lodge is the name given to the houses or huts that are used by hunters in connection with hunting and keeping . Usually cabins solid, brick-built or built wooden buildings , while hunting lodges more or less well-developed accommodation simpler one in the more remote areas of hunting Revieres are.

Kissel hunting lodge in Waldfischer Forest, Thuringia

Hunting huts are among the most original structures of mankind, in order to be able to find refuge in remote hunting grounds on long approaches and to be able to stay longer on site. In the days of the stately hunting law, hunting lodges that were explicitly recognizable as castles developed alongside the hunting lodge . The transition between the hunting lodge and the hunting lodge is fluid.

Together with the forest houses / huts, the alpine pastures and transhumance stations as well as the mountaineering huts, they are among the most important forms of settlement in non- permanently populated areas , such as large forest areas or mountainous areas . In remote areas they are partially unlocked and available to every traveler and are equipped with an emergency supply of canned food and firewood.

literature

• Martin Kämper : Weekend houses and other buildings outside - fisherman's hut, hunting lodge, beekeeping, caravan. (= Bibliography. Volume 4). 2., ext. Edition. Federal agency for vegetation science, nature conservation and landscape management, Bonn 1971.

Web links

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Wiktionary: Jagdhaus  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. for example topographical settlement identification according to STAT for Austria