Switzerland's Apple Hitting Fest | You Asked For It

Every year in Basel, Switzerland, citizens celebrate the Apple Hitting Fest, where riders navigate obstacle courses testing their cavalry skills, such as pulling swords from the ground and cutting apples in half on horseback. These historical reenactments, revived for pleasure, culminate in the winning apple splitter earning a kiss from a fair maiden.
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[@JosipRadnik1]

Very pleasant story with a few little errors:
- Basel looks slightly different than this green country place as it is a city with approximately 200'000 inhabitants and lots of industry as well as road, riverine and railway traffic.
- Baselland or Basel-Land is not a town nor a country, its a region (a Canton to be precise). Ok, as such we technically perhaps might be "citizens" of that place too but that I think "inhabitants" would be less irritating
- I live in Baselland for the most of my 50+ years now and I never heard of that event
- neither Basel (the city) nor Basel-Land (the county around Basel) does not have a great cavalry tradition nor are we known to breed horses in any way that could sustain such a tradition.
There is a region in the Jura mountains south west of Basel called "franche montagne" which is (relatively) well known for their horses and the annual events they organize to present them. So the infrastructure as well as the landscape would be in place. But "Oepfelhauet" (which is how i reconstructed the phonetic mutoid "oyflehowt" at 0:09) rather points to a place further to the east of Basel - especially since this would be an allemannic word and the franche montagne is french speaking.

[@JosipRadnik1]

Now get that! The answer lies within the still at 1:22: The sticker on the bucket says "50. Apfelhauet Biel-Benken 21.9.1981" (50th Apple-hitting event in Biel-Benken, 21st September 1981) - I'm baffled: Biel-Benken IS a town (village) in the Canton of Basel-Land and this tradtion really exists (just checked online) 🤓
Who would have thought that some american TV show from the 1980ies found on You Tube would teach me a lesson both about my home turf AND in humbleness 😳
gotta look for the Oepfelhauet 2024, seems I missed something 😄