Ceased hunting

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Ceased hunting near Moritzburg Castle in Saxony, 1718

Hunting adjusted depending Actuated effort as prime hunting , ceremonial hunting or Festinjagen and due to its once great popularity in German-speaking as a German hunting called, is a historic court event of the nobility . The game was previously “stopped” in large numbers, that is, herded into a chamber demarcated with sheets, for example, and held captive until the beginning of the event, then released into the adjacent chamber, the so-called run , and killed by the guests placed there to become.

Two different, schematic representations for setting up discontinued hunts

In the expensive splendor or festival hunts, which are relatively seldom held compared to normal main hunts, some of the game has already been transported from remote hunting grounds several days or weeks beforehand. Such courtly spectacles were reserved only for high social classes and were often captured in paintings. In addition to further pomp and adornment, blowing fanfares when shooting each piece was part of such an event.

In the German-speaking countries, the ceased hunting largely disappeared with the German Revolution of 1848/1849 and the associated binding of hunting rights to property , before it finally ceased completely with the upheavals at the end of the First World War.

See also

literature

  • Driven hunt . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 781-783 ( zeno.org ).
  • Hans Wilhelm Eckardt: Manorial hunting, rural hardship and bourgeois criticism. Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-525-35358-8 .
  • Wilhelm Dietrich Rentsch: On hunting at the princely courts of southwest Germany in the Baroque age . In: Baroque in Baden-Württemberg . Karlsruhe 1981, Volume 2, pp. 293-310.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hubertus Hiller: Jäger und Jagd: on the development of hunting in Germany between 1848 and 1914 . Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1196-3 , pp. 168 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c Ceased hunting. In: Archaeological Spessart Project. Archived from the original on October 6, 2019 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 .