Sebastian Brotherhood
In the Middle Ages, Sebastian Brotherhoods were brotherhoods and rifle brotherhoods that were consecrated to Saint Sebastian as emergency aid associations for plague epidemics .
The oldest documented Sebatianusbruderschaft (not a guild) in Germany is the brotherhood in Nettesheim (formerly Nettesheym) in the Rhineland, known among other things as the birthplace of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. It is one of the oldest still existing brotherhoods. In Nettesheim, after the Second World War, in 1948 the first rifle festival was celebrated with a parade and a parade in Germany, mainly due to the engagement of the rifle president Pastor Houben in the British occupation forces. Pastor Houben's perfect English supposedly helped. The shooting festival on the second Sunday in September is still an annual attraction for everyone from near and far in Nettesheim.
- Sebastian Brotherhood Rheinfelden
- St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood Nettesheim from 1300
- St. Sebastianus Brotherhood Gymnich
- St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood Geseke 1412
- St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood Nörvenich 1408
- Fraternity of the Red Lion of Limburg and Saint Sebastian