Wildscheuer

Draft for a wild barn by Leonhard Müller, perspective view and floor plan, 1823

A game barn or wild barn is a hunting facility for feeding hoofed game - mainly red deer - in the winter forest. These open barns were mainly to be found in sovereign forests between the baroque period and secularization . In 2013 an old game barn was restored in the Spessart .

In Steeden a cave named Wild Scheuer.

Individual evidence

↑ Wildscheuer. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 30 : Wilb – Hyssop - (XIV, 2nd section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1960 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

^ Friedrich Benedict Weber: General German terminological economic lexicon and idioticon , W. Engelmann, 1838, p. 657 .

↑ Wildscheuer im Spessart ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

^ Natural history collection in the Wiesbaden Museum

[1] Wildscheuer. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 30 : Wilb – Hyssop - (XIV, 2nd section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1960 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

[2] Friedrich Benedict Weber: General German terminological economic lexicon and idioticon , W. Engelmann, 1838, p. 657 .

[3] Wildscheuer im Spessart ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Natural history collection in the Wiesbaden Museum