German Hunting swords , thoughts and facts

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Originally Posted by Rick

The images of these 'hunting enclosures' are fascinating; I had no idea they were used.

These enclosed hunts startet in the 16th.century and spread over Germany as a hunting technique of the noble upperclass.The game was driven together in a huge area and in the end there were lots of animals gathered in a rag fenced place. ( Kammer = Chamber ). From here it was driven into the "Lauf " ,another fenced place ,where the hunters waited to kill the game by rifles or huntingswords.These hunts mostly took several days from starting to gather the game until the festive end.Lots of serfs had to do the work for the noble amusement. Some hunting traditions survived until present times.It seems up to the beginning of the 20th.century till this hunting technique was finally forbidden and branded as unsportsmanlike ( unwaidmännisch )