Rice Keten-Schützengesellschaft

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Rice Keten Shooting Society of the City of Bern
Logo Reismusketen.png
purpose Shooting society
Chair: Christoph Tanner ( chairman )
Establishment date: 1686
Number of members: 348
Seat : Gerechtigkeitsgasse 42
3011 Bern Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Website: www.reismusketen.ch
Schützenbrunnen with the little rifle flag in Bern (2011)

The Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft is a shooting society in the city of Bern , which owes its existence to a reorganization of the municipal shooting system that took place in 1686 . The Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft has existed as a private company since 1799, which can only be joined as a member of the civic community of Bern .

history

The verifiable beginnings of archery are in the 11th century. The first documentary mention of an annual cash bonus for the Schützenkönig is documented in 1064 by the Archbishop of Cologne , Anno II . The citizens of a medieval city were required to have a weapon to defend the city. The cities specifically encouraged crossbows and archers . The crossbowmen were first recorded in Bern in 1375. In 1378 the rifle rooms received a grant from the council for the trip to Solothurn for a shooting competition, later the council regularly paid out a sum of money and shooting gifts. Since 1420 a parlor ( guild ) of the rifle shooters is also known. In 1477 these two groups were united as a Society to Schützen . This society owned a rifle house and a society house at today's Marktgasse number 28 (broken off).

With the development of weapon technology, the light matchlock rifle (hand barrel) appeared in Bern in the 17th century , which was called a rice kete (meaning musket suitable for war ). The warlike handling of these new weapons required special and frequent drill. In 1675, when flintlock muskets had already appeared, a rice ketone society was founded on the initiative of the outer class , which, in contrast to the existing shooting range, not only shot at the target , but also practiced the weapon drill . In 1686 this facility was re-established by the authorities because it fell asleep. In the 18th century, too, this society almost went under several times.

During the restoration , the company in Bern increasingly organized so-called Ehr- und Freischiessen (1817, 1818, 1823). In 1824, the Reismusketenschützen were among the founders of the Swiss Rifle Association in Aarau. As a result, society increasingly turned to liberal ideas. On the occasion of the Tagsatzung in Bern in 1830, the Reismusketenschützen organized the fifth federal shooting festival, which took place for the first time in Bern. In 1835, at the request of the Burgdorfer Schützen, the Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft founded the cantonal rifle club (today the Bernese Shooting Association). With the establishment of the federal and cantonal shooting associations, society became quieter. The Reismusketenschützen took part less and less in shooting festivals. Due to the "homelessness" resulting from the expropriation of the Schützenmatt, the rice keteers shot from 1855 to 1866 in the open field and in neighboring shooting ranges, which resulted in traditions that shape today's society.

Since the Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft is only accessible to citizens of the city of Bern, it cannot conduct federal exercises in accordance with the DDPS shooting ordinance .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of
 Blazon : "Two crossed golden flintlock muskets on a red background, accompanied by three golden flames (1/2)."
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to the Bernese rifle flag , which, according to Diebold Schilling, shows a golden musket or a golden crossbow on a red background in the second half of the 15th century (after the merger in 1477 both together). The Berner Gesellschaft zu Schützen also had the same emblems as coats of arms, as documented by a contemporary stove tile. Representations from the 16th century suddenly show only a lying musket on the flag. The rice chains did not have their own coat of arms until the end of the 18th century. In 1824, two crossed rifles on a red background are documented as coats of arms for the rice kets. The colors were taken over by the Gesellschaft zu Schützen, which was dissolved in 1799. In the 19th century, most rifle associations in Switzerland carried crossed rifles, as contemporary marks from shooting festivals show. Various representations of the Rice Keten coat of arms show a flamed red background around 1850, probably based on the oldest surviving Bernese rifle flag from 1531. The flame ground gradually became four flames at the beginning of the 20th century and three from around 1922, which corresponds to the current shape .

people

See also

literature

  • Carl Jakob Durheim: Historical communications on the history of the "aristocratic Flitzbogen-Schützengesellschaft von Bern," from its origin to the present time 1856. In: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1857. P. 79–121 digitized
  • Rudolf von Fischer (ed.): 250 years of the Reismusketenschützen-Gesellschaft Bern 1686–1936. Bern, 1936.
  • The City of Bern's Rice Keten Shooting Society. Founded in 1686. Bern, 2009. (Contents)
  • Announcements from the Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft of the City of Bern. from 1954 Swiss National Library
  • Jürg Richter: Switzerland's rifle chips. Regenstauf 2005, p. 20.
  • Heinrich Türler : files on the shooter being. In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1902. Bern 1901, pp. 295–307. online (containing the shooting regulations of 1530)
  • René Wyss: The old parlor and shooting companies of the city of Bern. In: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1854. online
  • Final shooting of the Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft of the city of Bern . In: The Bern Week . tape 36 . Bern 1946, doi : 10.5169 / seals-649403 .

Web links

Commons : Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kehrli 2009, p. 11
  2. ↑ SSRQ BE I / 11, p. 319. online
  3. ↑ SSRQ BE I / 11, p. 342. online
  4. ↑ SSRQ BE I / 11, p. 346. online
  5. ↑ DDPS Shooting Ordinance of December 11, 2003 (PDF; 363 kB).
  6. ↑ www.reismusketen.ch