Freischütz

The term refers to Freischütz

  • In hunting mythology a hunter, the possession of a free ball to the complete accuracy enabled. This he was able to acquire, by pouring the ball at a certain date at midnight in a remote place or by hidden in the church in a midnight mass, without shooting, aimed at the elevated Host and scratched on the ball a cross. This motif covered include the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber.
  • (obsolete) in politics in a direct transfer into French nationals irregular units, the franc-tireur (see also irregulars, guerrilla, partisan resistance fighters ). From a compound of the aspects of accuracy on the one hand and illegal resistance on the other side of the negative concept of the sniper was. This term is rendered in English by the word sniper, lies in wait of well camouflaged distant snipe ( = Snipe ).
  • A well-known since 1861 Ausflugslokal in Ardey mountains between Dortmund and sword, see Freischütz ( picnic area )
  • Der Freischütz is an opera by Carl Maria von Weber
  • A roller coaster at Bayern Park, see Freischütz ( Bayern-Park )
  • Disambiguation
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