SWITZERLAND Shooting Festival VINTAGE Swiss Ribbon OLD Award Medal i105278

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 Switzerland
Swiss Shooting Festival Award

White Metal Medal 30mm x 40mm 
(Medallion) (23.90 grams)
KANT.SCHUTZEN.VEREIN BERN FELDSCHIESSEN AUSZEICHNUNG, Man with arrow leading 
lion left on Coat-of-arms.
Ribbon Notes:
Red left, Black right, Silver and Yellow edges.


You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of 
Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity. 


A
Schützenfest
is a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting 
competition in the cultures of both Germany and Switzerland.

At a 
Schützenfest, contestants compete based on their shooting abilities, for example 
by shooting at a wooden representation of an eagle. The winner of the 
competition becomes the Schützenkönig (“king of marksmen”) until the next 
year’s competition.

The commercially-organized Schützenfest of Hanover, 
Germany, is the largest marksmen’s funfair in the world with more than 5,000 
marksmen, 250 rides and inns, 5 large beer tents, and the “Marksmen’s Parade”. 
The parade, with more than 10,000 participants from Germany and all over the 
world and more than 100 bands, is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long. It is the longest 
parade in the world. The landmark of the funfair is one of the highest 
transportable Ferris wheels in the world. It is 60 metres (200 ft) high and can 
transport 420 people in 42 cabins.

Medals 
and decorations

Shooting 
competitions are a way of life in the Germanic regions of Europe, especially in 
Switzerland. The initial Swiss Federal Shooting Festival (Eidgenössisches 
Schützenfest) was held in 1824. Federal contests along with cantonal level, 
city, and club competitions have continued through to the present day.


Various awards for marksmanship have been won by the competitors. Shooting 
medals and shooting cups are the most common forms of award. Books illustrating 
and listing these awards have been published in Switzerland.


Swiss shooting medals were struck in a variety of metals including gold, silver, 
bronze, white metal, and aluminum, with silver being the most common. Mintages 
are very low with the average mintage of the 45 millimetres (1.8 in) silver 
being 700-800 pieces. The scarcity of medals has increased over the years due to 
the awards being melted for bullion, being lost, and general attrition. The size 
of most medals range from 23 millimetres (0.91 in) to 62 millimetres (2.4 in) 
with 45 millimetres (1.8 in) being the most prevalent.


Also minted to commemorate the Shooting Festival were shooting thalers. Swiss 
shooting thalers began mintage in 1842, and continue being minted today. They 
can be distinguished from shooting medals by their uniform size and temporary 
legal tender status.

History


During the Middle Ages, many towns had to find ways to defend themselves from 
gangs of marauders. For this reason clubs and associations were founded, 
comparable to militias; these paramilitary associations were sanctioned for the 
first time in the Law for the Defensive Constitution of the Towns by King 
Henry I, and officially integrated into the towns’ defense plans. Accompanying 
the military exercises and physical examinations of the towns’ contingents, 
festivities were held combined with festive processions. Participants from other 
parishes and at times even the feudal heads of state were also invited to these
Marksmen’s Courts
(Schützenhöfe). However, the self-confident spirit 
of the townsfolk that marked these festivities was not always regarded 
positively by the authorities. For this reason, different traditions developed 
in different regions. The military significance lessened over the course of the 
centuries and became meaningless with the creation of regular troops and 
garrisons for national defence. The Schützenfests however continued in the form 
of a regional patriotic tradition.


Switzerland

Schützenfests played a central role in the Old 
Swiss Confederacy, during the 15th century, participants shooting the crossbow, 
contributing significantly to the coherence between the individual cantons. The
Schützenfest
of 1849 in Aarau figures prominently in Gottfried Kellers
Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten
, where Keller portrays the shooting clubs 
as vital for the preservation of direct democracy in the young Swiss federal 
state. Today a Swiss Federal Schützenfest counts 50’000 marksmen during 4 
weeks.

Eidgenössische (federal) Schützenfest are organized 
by the Schweizerischer Schützenverein since 1824.


Switzerland
officially the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica
hence its abbreviation CH), is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of 
26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities, the so-called
Bundesstadt
(“federal city”). The country is situated in Western and Central 
Europe, where it is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany 
to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a 
landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau 
and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While 
the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of 
approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the 
largest cities are to be found. Among them are the two global cities and 
economic centres of Zürich and Geneva.

The establishment of the Swiss 
Confederation is traditionally dated to 1 August 1291, which is celebrated 
annually as Swiss National Day. It has a long history of armed neutrality-it has 
not been in a state of war internationally since 1815-and did not join the 
United Nations until 2002. It pursues, however, an active foreign policy and is 
frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. Switzerland is 
also the birthplace of the Red Cross and home to numerous international 
organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it 
is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association and is part of the 
Schengen Area – although it is notably not a member of the European Union, nor 
the European Economic Area. Switzerland comprises four main linguistic and 
cultural regions: German, French, Italian and the Romansh-speaking valleys. 
Therefore, the Swiss, although predominantly German-speaking, do not form a 
nation in the sense of a common ethnic or linguistic identity; rather, the 
strong sense of identity and community is founded on a common historical 
background, shared values such as federalism and direct democracy, and Alpine 
symbolism.

Switzerland has the highest nominal wealth per adult (financial 
and non-financial assets) in the world according to Credit Suisse and 
eighth-highest per capita gross domestic product on the IMF list. However, 
Switzerland is also the most expensive country in the world to live in, as 
measured by the price level index.

Swiss citizens have the second-highest 
life expectancy in the world on the UN DESA list. Switzerland is tied with the 
Netherlands for the top rank on the Bribe Payers Index indicating very low 
levels of business corruption. Moreover, for the last five years the country has 
been ranked first in economic and tourist competitiveness according to the 
Global Competitiveness Report and the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 
respectively, both developed by the World Economic Forum. Zürich and Geneva have 
each been ranked among the top cities with the highest quality of life in the 
world, with the former coming second globally according to Mercer. However, 
Mercer also rates those two cities as the fifth- and sixth- most expensive 
cities in the world to live in.


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TYPE

Medal

COUNTRY/REGION OF MANUFACTURE

Switzerland

COMPOSITION

White Metal

MPN

Switzerland Medal e9dd4945-e5e6-4

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