Parrot shooting (Hanover)
Tempera picture by Ernst Jordan for the XIV. German Federal Shooting in 1903 in Hanover; owned by the Historisches Museum Hannover
The parrot shooting in Hannover is a presumably to the 14th century, reaching back tradition of the Hanover protecting nature and marks the earliest known beginnings of the Hanoverian Schützenfest . To shoot birds , the Hanoverians met regularly at Whitsun outside their city west of the Leine on the grounds of Lauenrode Castle . Here they used crossbows to shoot a bird on the so-called "parrot tree". At the same time, those present were able to look over the medieval backdrop of the fortified city. When shooting parrots, however, it was not just about practicing and showing off one's own defensiveness, but also about a festival for spectators and guests, as the painter Ernst Jordan did almost half a millennium later in 1903 in an IVX. German federal shooting in Hanover reproduced tempera picture illustrated with booths .
The shooting at Whitsun and the associated merrymaking did not take place within the city fortifications of Hanover , but on the elevated territory of the respective sovereign on the opposite bank of the Leine . In 1468, Duke Wilhelm the Elder of Braunschweig-Lüneburg complained to the city council about
"That s the Popegoyen to schetende uppe Lauwenrode, because of that we missedunket [...]"
The Duke's displeasure sent to the City of Hanover is today the oldest known written mention of the Hanoverian shooting festival.
Although unrest slowly began to develop in Hanover just a few decades later in the run-up to the Reformation , Duke Erich I granted the city the privilege of holding a so-called “Schützenhof” annually in 1529 .
In the years 1573 to 1574, the riflemen finally built the first rifle house in Hanover on the site of what would later become the Klagesmarkt , before the City Council of Hanover issued the city's first shooting regulations the following year.
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- ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hannoversches Schützenfest , in ders .: Small town history of Hanover , Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2311-2 , p. 71; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ a b c o. V .: VM 033125 / Schützenfest auf Lauenrode , text accompanying the digitized version of the painting in the series Ein Stück Hannover for the purpose of obtaining sponsorships from the Friends of the Historical Museum Hannover eV on the ein-stueck-hannover page . de [undated], last accessed on April 10, 2019