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The Traunstein Sword Dance The origins of the Traunstein sword dance go back to the year 1530. In the town’s treasury book of that year it reads, “ So all you young fellows give 1 gulden for the sword dance“. But there are no further remarks about the arrangement, the iconography and the reason why those “fellows“ performed the sword dance. The concrete realisation of the sword dance revival dates back to 1925. The gymnasts of the gymnastics club Traunstein were considered to execute this revival… Mehr Informationen...