Miltenberg City (Germany) (original) (raw)


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[[Miltenberg city banner]](../images/d/de-ml-ml%5F.gif)5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

Miltenberg City

Miltenberg Banner

It is a red-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

Miltenberg Flag

[[Miltenberg city flag]](../images/d/de-ml-ml.gif)3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

It is a red-white horizontal bicolour with centred coat of arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

Miltenberg Coat of Arms

Shield quartered, 1st and 4th quarter Gules a 6-spokes wheel Argent, 2nd and 3rd quarter Argent an intial "M" Gules.
Meaning:
Miltenberg belonged to the Archbishopric of Mainz since it foundation in the 13th century until 1803 and was probably elevated to a city already in the 13th century.The first seal was mentioned in 1285. Prints existed since 1308. The seal displayed St. Martin in half length portrait, patron saint of the archbishopric, issuant from an inescutcheon charged with an initial "M" under a church. Since the 16th century the church was omitted. The first arms from 1819 were based on that seal. The saint wore a blue coat and a blue mitre with golden ornaments, held a golden crozier by his right hand and blessed a beggar in red robe, kneeling at sinister, by his left hand. An architectural sculpture on the former Schindtor, a city gate, displayed the wheel of Mainz with three initials "M". Siebmacher (1605) displayed a red shield with two white wheels on dexter chief and sinister base and two white initials on sinister chief and dexter base, the predecessor of the current arms. The city applied the approval of those arms in 1934, but nothing happened. In 1951 those arms were placed into the conference room of the city hall. The seals however still displayed the saint.
Source: Stadler 1968, p.18
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

The current arms were adopted without approval in 1951. A red-white banner is in use at least since 1968, probably earlier.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

Mainbullau Borough

Mainbullau Banner

[[Mainbullau borough banner]](../images/d/de-ml-ml-ma%5F.gif)5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

Mainbullau Coat of Arms

Shield parted per fess; above Argent parted by a centred, facetted cross Sable; beneath Gules a 6-spokes wheel Argent at dexter and a dog's head Argent wearing a collar Sable with spikes Argent.
Meaning:
The village was established by forest clearance at the instigation of the Rüdt of Collenberg kin, who had been vassals of the Teutonic Order, represented in the arms by the black cross. Later the members of the kin had been vassals of the Archbishopric of Mainz since 1483. The also held the high level cognisance in Mainbullau and Rüdenau. In the 16th century both became seats of a bailiwick. The village was acquired by the archbishopric in 1659, after the Rüdt kin had died out. The wheel is taken from the arms of the archbishopric. The head of a male dog (German: Rüde) displays the canting arms of the Rüdt kin. The protestant village was nearly completely destroyed during the 30-Years-War (1618 - 1648). Since 1668 the archbishops resettled the depopulated village by Catholic peasants. In 1803 the village was secularised and acquired by the Princes of Leiningen, a bit later by the Grand Dukes of Baden and afterwards by the Grand Dukes of Hessen, finally in 1815 by the Kings of Bayern.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

Banner and arms were abolished on 1 January 1976.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Dec 2021

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