Bewindfahnet

Wind flags on the building on the left in Schleusingen , it is wind flagged

Bewindfahnet is a technical term in heraldry . In French, the term girouette , derived from the noun Girouette for wind vane, means weather vane.

The term is used when, for example, a tower has a wind vane of pungent tincture . Other structures such as ship masts , churches and towers , walls and gates or similar heraldic figures are often decorated with flags or small pennants and this detail is an important feature in the description of the coat of arms .

The wind direction, waving to the right or waving to the left, is to be mentioned in the description of the coat of arms.

See also

• Wind vane (heraldry)

Web links

• Bewindfahnet in the Heraldry Wiki

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller: Illustrirtes Archaeological Dictionary of the Art of Germanic Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance…. Volume A – H, Otto Spamer bookstore, Leipzig / Berlin 1877, p. 193.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Alexander Müller: Illustrirtes Archaeological Dictionary of the Art of Germanic Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance…. Volume AH, Otto Spamer bookstore, Leipzig / Berlin 1877, p. 464.