Hornussen
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Hitting the hornuss thumb|250px|The hornuss on the bock thumb|250px|A schindel (shingle) Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss sport played by two teams of 16 to 20 players which alternate in striking a puck known as a "Hornuss" (hornet) or "Nouss" and attempting to deflect it. When hit, the Hornuss can fly at up to 300 km/h (186.4 mph) and create a buzzing sound. Outside of Switzerland, there are few teams.
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- Sport.name
- Hornussen
- Sport.image
- Hornussen catching.jpg
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- Stopping the hornuss in flight
- Sport.country/region
- Switzerland
- Sport.olympic
- No
- Sport.paralympic
- No
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- game of skill
- Country
- Switzerland
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- Hornussen bock.jpg
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thumb|250px|Hitting the hornuss thumb|250px|The hornuss on the bock thumb|250px|A schindel (shingle) Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss sport played by two teams of 16 to 20 players which alternate in striking a puck known as a "Hornuss" (hornet) or "Nouss" and attempting to deflect it. When hit, the Hornuss can fly at up to 300 km/h (186.4 mph) and create a buzzing sound. Outside of Switzerland, there are few teams.
==History== The sport probably developed in the seventeenth century. The earliest reference to Hornuss is found in the records of 1625 of the consistory of Lauperswil, canton Bern, in a complaint about the breaking of the Sabbath. Two men were fined the sum of 20 francs for playing Hornussen on Sunday. The first recorded competitive Hornussen game occurred in 1655 in Trub. The sport appears in the 1841 Jeremias Gotthelf novel Uli, der Knecht. In the 19th century this amateur sport was very popular in the Emmental and in Entlebuch.
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