A wire netting, in particular a safety net, has a plurality of helices which are braided with one another and at least one of which is manufactured of at least one single wire, a wire bundle, a wire strand, a wire rope and/or another longitudinal element with at least one wire, made of a high-tensile steel, and which includes a plurality of legs, which has a plurality of bending regions respectively connecting two legs, and which has a transverse extension along a frontal direction, perpendicularly to a main extension plane of the helix, wherein, in a press test between parallel plates, including a pressing by moving the plates along a press path in parallel to the frontal direction, a test piece of the helix, taken from the helix and including at least five legs and at least four bending regions, shows a spring characteristic curve which has in a press path force diagram, starting from a start of the press path, a first partial characteristic curve extending at least approximately linearly and having a first gradient.
