Pecking (sport)

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The picking is executed with wooden blocks open-air bowling sport , with small, vertically on a grindstone standing timber must be taken with a large boomerang in compliance with numerous regulations.

history

In metalworking regions ( Bergisches Land , Sauerland ) in the days of water-powered grinding works, a few hours of drying time often had to be overcome before work could be continued. The grinders used this time to practice a hit game, whereby the blocks to be hit were placed on a horizontally lying grindstone.

This sport was first mentioned in the 13th century.

Pecking spread rapidly and was also known in other regions of Europe. Until the 1930s there were regular championships with dozens of teams that had pick clubs (not least because of their cozy club huts in protected forest locations) sometimes hundreds of members. Until the 1960s, tournaments were held between the last remaining picking clubs.

present

In Germany there is only one single picking club, namely in the village of Vonklen in the Wuppertal district of Cronenberg . The local pick club "Grüne Eiche", which was founded in 1894, not only operates the sport, but also maintains what is probably the only archive with memorial material from the heyday of this sport. The regular pecking at Vonkel is now a small attraction that also attracts visitors from far away.

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