Very interesting, thanks for posting.

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StevenHall wrote on Jan 28^th, 2017 at 10:20pm:


Well, most of the ranges and buildings do not exist anymore.
In WWII, the towns were bombed by the Allied Forces, the ranges didn't survive back then.
After WWII, the Allied Forces destroyed most of the still existing ranges (and also the rifles), because the Germans never should be armed again.

A lot of those huge town buildings which survived the bomb hale were used for other things later. They were converted to schools, companies, hospitals, farms, and, and, and. When two thirds of a town was destroyed, they needed a still existing building for more important things than for shooting... well, shooting was forbidden for years and years.

In the 1950s, when the Germans were allowed again to shoot with air rifle or maybe with .22 rifles, the clubs wanted to get back their buildings. But the town councils decided to offer a new property to the applying clubs, outside the town, without any historical touch. 
What they built on the new property looked like a garage, in the new style of that time. Had nothing to do with the old buildings, just a functional shed for the new era.

       Biggi. 

Thank you for sharing these pics 
Scott

Thanks for the great post and pictures Biggi! 
It appears some of the shooting houses might have been large enough for shooters to have sleeping quarters? Did some provide overnight quarters?

Here is a neat old painted postcard round 1910 from a schützenhaus where one can see the range in the backyard.

Two distances, probably 300 meters and 175 meters.
Couldn't find anything on the web about this place.
But I guess the range does not exist anymore, because it was in Saxonia (after WWII in GDR).

Here is an example for a real big Schützenhaus. Its located in Bocholt, north west Germany.

The building was erected in 1912 by the club and with support of the town council. In the last months of WWII, the town was destroyed by 85% in the hail of bombs, dropped by the Allied Forces. The building of the club was destroyed too. But in the late 1940s they could manage it to re-erect the building in the same style.

BTW: In this region of Germany the clubs have more schützenfests and parades, compared with Bavaria. But the Bavarians shoot way more and they shoot offhand. In the Bocholt-region they shoot from a rest...

This one looks a lot like the Monroe Swiss Schuetzenverein Schuetzenhaus in Monroe, WI I saw picture of.  It was around the same time and had a model T in front of it even.

feuerbixler wrote on Jan 29^th, 2017 at 4:01pm:

Wow!  A good hotel with shooting range instead of an exercise gym.  What a concept!