A shooting competition for 13- to 17-year-olds at the Albisgüetli range, open to girls since 1991, which produces a Schützenkönig or Schützenkönigin each year and is reported in the city's papers. Around it stands the largest funfair in Switzerland, which is what most of the several hundred thousand attendees come for.
The contest dates in some form from the seventeenth century.
No attendance figure is collected in this pass.
It is anchored to the weekend before the second Monday of September, and the Monday itself is a half-holiday in the city of Zurich — schools and many offices close at noon, which catches out visitors who assume a normal working day.
PlanningAnchored to the weekend before the second Monday of September, which is a city half-holiday.