Enjoy the Marksmen’s Parade in Hannover, celebrating culture and community! | Binaural 4K

Enjoy the Marksmen’s Parade in Hannover, celebrating culture and community! | Binaural 4K

Hi and welcome to the yearly Marksmen’s Parade in Hannover, the longest parade in the world! With this parade we celebrate clubs and volunteers who invest labour, time and money into keeping culture alive in various ways and making the community safer. It has 10,000-12,000 attendees and is about 12 km/7.5 miles long. I’ll explain Marksmen Clubs and this whole parade in a moment. Right now, we see the local music corps of the Bundeswehr. They are the only military in this parade. Suit guy in golden chain is mayor of the state capital Hannover, and suit guy in silver chain is minister president Olaf Lies. (You pronounce that “Olaf Lees”, just saying) These people are honorary guests such as other mayors, council members, members of several political parties, a former chief of police etc. Not only Marksmen’s Clubs take part in the parade, pretty much all kinds of clubs and associations are welcome, including guests from other countries. There are sports clubs, marching bands and brass orchestras, cultural friendship societies e.g. from Ukraine or Portugal, citizen and artisan guilds, carnival clubs, several aid agencies, the protestant church, several voluntary fire brigades of different places, hunting clubs, and regional companies like breweries, local news and Volkswagen. The 15,000 marksmen’s clubs in Germany have military visuals because of their historic roots, but they do sport shooting only and their members are completely and utterly civilian. Ok so what are marksmen clubs? Marksmen clubs are rooted in the militias and marksmen brotherhoods of old, when adult males had to be able to defend their city from attackers with crossbows and, eventually, rifles. In times of peace, they would still practice through competitions like trying to shoot a wooden parrot off a very high pole. Today, marksmen clubs are entirely for fun and usually everybody can participate. In yearly competitions within the individual clubs, the local marksmen festivals, each club decides this year’s King or Queen of the Marksmen – the winner of the competition. Some clubs do kids contests, then they’ll have a Child King or Child Queen too. The sports weapons the marksmen use depend on the club. It can be bows, crossbows, or up to olympic grade weapons, but there are very strict rules – this is Germany we are talking about. You can recognize kings and queens by their enormous silver chains around their necks – or their cool rides I guess? Each king or queen adds another silver piece with their name and occupation to their club’s chain. So older clubs have really massive chains, with many names of people on them which are long gone. The many medals on the jackets are basically achievements – for competitions, but also things like long membership or volunteering. Similar to scouts I think! The shooting sport is only the occasion that brings everyone together, though. The actual point of becoming a member is community. The members often have decades-long friendships, and they bring older and younger generations together. The person on the mic is introducing each club by name, origin, and year of foundation. The parade is live on TV, too. I learned later that they also shot a film during this very parade! It’s a new episode of Tatort (“Crime-scene”), an incredibly successful German TV drama with a huge cultural impact. The film crew even planted a fake club somewhere in the parade. Look at the year number on this flag. Some of these clubs are more than 250, 500, or even 750 years old. …brother, is your voice ok? When the people in the parade arrive here, they have already walked for 1.5 hours, and they will have to walk 1.5 hours more. They are throwing hard candy for the kids. Candy thrown in parades like this is called Kamelle. I was glad I had a sun hat on, because over the course of the parade several handful of hard candy hit my head No bonking of Moinchas head please The largest marksmen festival happens here in Hannover every summer, and this parade is part of it. They are actually parading from the town hall to the festival plaza, where the celebrations will proceed. The link in the description gives you some pictures of the festival! I really like that the longest parade in the world is not a military parade, but instead one that celebrates culture and community. Hanoverian club for freehand shooting of 1862. The Markmen’s Guild of Clenze from 1848, with a goblet of King Ernst August from 1851 for some reason. Hunter’s Corps in uniform of Pattensen from 1851. Marching band of the marksmen’s club of Schneeren from 1928. Sadly I haven’t been able to record the entire parade. I have underestimated the length of the worlds longest parade lol Parade length 1:0 Moinchas battery BRUH Die Johanniter are a voluntary humanitarian organisation, affiliated with the Order of Saint John. brother, what are you doing, the scots are waiting This is the funniest image to me. Just look at them back there Coolest guy in the entire parade by far. What on earth I have never seen one of those things in real life. oh god, its dying My battery is on 1%, so this will be it for today. Thank you for watching!

The yearly Marksmen Parade of Hannover, Germany is the longest parade in the world and celebrates culture and community, volunteers and keepers of tradition. It is so long in fact that my battery left me about halfway in.

For pictures of the festival this parade is part of, take a look at its wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%BCtzenfest_Hannover#