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Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 sport which can be described as a cross between baseball
Baseball

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 and golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
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Catching the Hornuss
Hitting the Hornuss
Hornussen Bock
Hornussen Schindeln
Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 sport which can be described as a cross between baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 and golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
. The sport gets its name from the puck which is known as a "Hornuss" (hornet) or "Nouss". When hit, it can whizz through the air at up to 300 km/h and create a buzzing sound.

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
Lauperswil

Lauperswil is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Signau in the Cantons of Switzerland of Bern in Switzerland....
, canton Berne
Canton of Berne

The canton of Berne is the second largest of all Switzerland Cantons of Switzerland. It borders the Canton of Jura and the Canton of Solothurn to the north....
, in a complaint about the breaking of the Sabbath. In the 19th century this amateur sport was very popular in the Emmental
Emmental

For the cheese made in the region, see Emmental .The Emmental is the valley of the Emme river in west central Switzerland in the canton of Bern , a region mostly devoted to farming, particularly dairy farming....
 and in Entlebuch
Entlebuch

Entlebuch is a municipalities of Switzerland in the Cantons of Switzerland of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district of Entlebuch ....
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In 1902, the federal Hornussen association was founded, which organises a competition every three years. In 1988 there were 232 clubs in the association, with around 6,900 members. During the season inter-association and inter-cantonal events are held, as well as group and elite events.

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