Thierhaupten Market Town (Germany) (original) (raw)


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Markt Thierhaupten, Landkreis Augsburg, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-10-31 by klaus-michael schneider
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Thierhaupten Market Town

Thierhaupten Banner

It is a white-blue vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2020

Thierhaupten Coat of Arms

Renaissance shield Azure, a torso of a hind salient Or tongued Gules, chief lozengy of Argent and Azure.
Meaning:
The arms are based on those of the Benedictine Thierhaupten Abbey from the middle of the 15th century. In German heraldry an "animal" (German: Tier) is usually depicted as a hind. The arms were thus canting. The village had been seat of a district and a low level courtyard of the abbey until 1803. The lozengy chief stresses the dominion of Bayern over the abbey and is part of the arms since the 16th century.
Source: Stadler 1968, p.75
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2020

The arms were approved on 11 March 1952 by Minister of Interior of Bayern. The banner in Bavarian colours was never approved officially.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2020

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