Hunt marks a visiting, a placing behind, a catching, a hunting and an acquiring of game. Where the hunt is subject to legal regulations or the hunting grounds may be used only by certain circles of acquaintances, the bad hunt is called Wilderei. By "hunting "one understands the purposeful killing of game.

Tasks and motives

The hunt originally came for different reasons:

• Food production
• Production of animal parts of all kinds (like for example skins, horns, antlers, etc.)
• Leisure activities

In more recent time was added than further reasons:

• Economic reasons outside of the hunt (for example inventory adjustment, in order to prevent game damage in the forest and agriculture)

• Ecological reasons (population dynamics, natural equilibrium, replacement of the exterminated booty grip arms, prevention of epidemics)

Also today the motives mentioned are to be found further next to each other. However is a substantial component of the hunt preserves beyond that. In addition for example also feeding of game animals belong in times of distress and the plant of game fields, with which the natural food bottleneck in the winter and thus verb-eat in the forest to be reduced is. This proceeding does not remain without criticism (see paragraph: Criticism). Further within the framework preserve however also measures moved those generally the goals of the nature protection to serve, as for instance measures for the protection of valuable biotopes, biotope improvements (approximately by plant of hedges) and Renaturierungen. Since the hunt is not any more part of the creation of the food basis, it is regarded as hobby (hunt haven).

History and tradition

Origin

Already in the paleolithic age by humans one hunted - "hunter and collecting tank "is the usual name for humans of this time. The hunt served mainly for the food supply and supplied beside meat valuable animal by-products such as bones and skins.

With the increasing permanence and associated Domestizierung of animals the hunt stepped as base of life in far parts of the population increasingly into the background. Already in the antique advanced cultures the hunt was regarded as leisure pleasure. It was increasingly only exercised by a small part of the total population. But there were hunt-referred cults for divinities, who the chase was particularly sanctified - so the Greek Artemis and the Roman Diana. Also the catholic church has particularly a patron of the hunters, the Hl. Hubertus.

To in the Middle Ages the hunt became ever more the privilege of the aristocracy, as well as national and church dignitary. From the Middle Ages also the distinction originates into "high hunt "- those the aristocracy reserved hunt for big game - and "low hunt "on smaller animals such as hares and feather/spring game (small game). Districts in those the hunting right alone the king were entitled as game spell are designated. In 18. and 19. Century was called the hunt and/or the hunter also "Parforce ".

Today the hunt in Germany is exercised with priority by private hunters. The hunting right is firmly linked with the landed property, so that in hunt cooperatives united basic owners lease the hunt practice right on on time third. Besides existed also an active hunt tourism in the Ausland.In the States of and national forests is exercised the hunting right by the and partially likewise further-leased.

Customs - hunters in fairy tales and stories

Also in Germany jagdliches customs with different jagdlichen customs exist, among other things a hunter language is maintained. The traditional green clothing is to be excluded everyone well-known and hardly more. The jagdlichen traditions are maintained in the hunter shank actively and are also frequently in practice.

Like few other occupational groups the hunters in numerous fairy tales and stories were mystifiziert. In (north and Central German) the fairy tales and stories they appear particularly as noble shapes. In fairy tales they are often it, which cause the turn at the end to the good one or seal (for example rescue before "the bad wolf ").

Also in the homeland films of the 50's hunter often appeared as noble Kavaliere and began thereby the follow-up of the knight shape in medieval stories.

On the other hand the hunters or Jager in South German, in Bavarian people narrations are particularly explained often negatively. The forest belonged in feeling the people everything. Thus the Wildern was regarded as legitimate. This applies particularly to songs and stories from the time of the absolutism. There the conflict between "the game contactors "(Wilderer) often becomes and the hunters as assistants of the hated absolutist authority described. While all, the courageous men dividing with the arms are explained to game contactors, the hunters are described as cowardly and In the Bavarian song of protecting the Jennerwein comes particularly clearly to the expression (see the legend Jennerwein).

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