Apple cross

This article explains the cross shape. For the award see Order of love of neighbor .

Apple cross

The apple cross , also ball cross (or ball bar cross ), ball cross , is a cross in heraldry with the ends of the arms ending in circles.

It is to be distinguished from the pearl cross , which can also be found under the same names, here several balls form the arms.

Form and use

Balls is the general heraldic name for circular shapes, for which various special names can be found, depending on their color and size. Of apple cross one speaks specifically in relation to the similar cross on the globe ♁ and the orb , to avoid confusion.

The four-armed cross is occupied at all ends. One also says cross with ball ends and the like. As with many crosses - especially with the Latin high form - the lower end can vary, so one would speak of a pointed apple cross if it were pointed at the bottom. The basic form is a common (Greek) cross with arms of equal length, but it can also be a Latin (high) cross .

The French name is Croix pommelée or Croix pommée ('apple cross', the English heraldry knows cross pommee, cross pommé, cross pommelly, cross pommy , Latin crux globata ).

Gert Oswald distinguishes the ball cross (ball cross, coin cross) from the apple cross in the real sense. According to his definition, these crosses must touch the balls sitting on the ends of the cross.

This shape is then specifically called a ball-bar cross

Cross with attached balls

Cross with spherical ends

In this shape, the apple cross merges into the piston cross (bud cross) , for generally rounded thickened ends, especially when the ball is not sharply defined.

Variants and similar forms

	Pilgrim's Cross or Pilgrim's Staff Cross , Pilgrim's Staff Cross ( Crux orbiculata ): Can be specially designed in this form.
	Ring cross : with openwork discs
	Found more than one ball at the end, it is called with balls sullied (cf. about the rich besteckte. Occitan Cross ; fr. Pommetée Croix or Croix bourdonnée , beaded cross', which can also stand for piston crosses). A cross with three balls can be one of the shapes of the clover leaf cross .

Examples

The shape was a golden enamelled cross with the inscription Amor proximi der Order of Charity (Ordre de l'amour du prochain) , a relatively short-lived Austrian social award, which was only briefly called "Apple Cross".

Characters

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In Unicode , the apple cross is contained in the block of various pictographic symbols as U + 1F542 cross pommee .

Web links

Commons : Apple Cross in Heraldry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : Complete root and synonym dictionary of the German language from all its dialects and with all foreign words. 5th, cheap stereotype edition. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Nördlingen 1865, p. 86 .
2. ↑ Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Volume 1. Leipzig 1793, p. 411 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Croix pommetée in Le Dictionnaire orateur - François-Latin-Aleman. 2nd edition (Frankfurt am Main, 1709), p. 249, column 1 ( Google eBook, full view ).
4. ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 , p. 241.
5. ^ Herder's Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 1: A to Cardi. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, et al. 1854, p. 217 .
6. ↑ Adam Breysig: Dictionary of Imagery or brief and instructive details of symbolic and allegorical images and often conventional signs mixed with them. Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, Leipzig 1830, p. 45 .
7. ^ Realis (di: Gerhard Robert Walter von Coeckelberghe-Dützele ): Curiosities and Memorabilia Lexicon of Vienna. Volume 1. Edited by Anton Köhler. sl, Vienna 1846, p. 75 .
8. ↑ Code Tables - Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. (PDF; 683 kB) Unicode Consortium, accessed on August 2, 2012 .