Flag and coat of arms of the canton and the municipality of Schwyz

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Coat of arms of the Canton of Schwyz and the municipality of Schwyz
Flag of the canton and the municipality of Schwyz

The flag and the coat of arms of the canton and the municipality of Schwyz represent a white cross in the Obereck on a red background.

The stand color is red.

The white cross also appears on the two-lobed color flag.

history

Schwyz stand disk (16th century)

The banner of the canton of Schwyz was only wearing the color red since the mid-13th century. It may have been from the blood flag derived the empire. The Arma Christi have been shown in the corner quarters since the 14th . This practice was legitimized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1479 . The reduction of the Arma Christi to a simple white cross took place during the 15th century. The white cross is depicted in the Swiss illustrated chronicles. However, the Julius banner from 1512 still shows the cross with Christ crucified, and even in the 16th century the complete Arma Christi are occasionally depicted.

Since around 1490, the banners of the cantons have also been shown as coats of arms , namely in the form of stand discs . The coat of arms of Schwyz in these representations also only shows a red shield. During the 16th to 18th centuries the coat of arms was simply red, while the canton banner was depicted with a white cross. Since the 17th century, the coat of arms was increasingly shown in prints (black and white images) with a white cross. Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (1605) shows the Schwyz coat of arms still without a cross. The title page of Merian's Topographia Helvetiae from 1642 shows it with a cross.

presentation

In 1963 the government council of the canton Schwyz decided the following official dimensions of the cross:

  1. « The equally long arms of the cross are each three times longer than they are wide. »
  2. « The entire length of the bar is 1/3 of the horizontal side length of the flag or the coat of arms. »
  3. « The distance from the edge of the flag or coat of arms is 1/3 of an arm's length. »

Blazon

The official blazon of the Schwyz coat of arms reads:

A silver cross in red in the upper left corner. »

literature

  • Louis Mühlemann: coat of arms and flags of Switzerland. 3. Edition. Bühler-Verlag, Lengnau 1991, ISBN 3-9520071-1-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Flag Regulations of the Swiss Armed Forces ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11.4 MB), p. 56  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vtg.admin.ch
  2. mentioned by the Bern chronicler Conrad Justinger around 1420; According to Guy P. Marchal , Die frommen Schweden in Schwyz , Basler Contributions to History Science, 1976, p. 17 "at the time of Justinger the introduction of the corner quarters was evidently so far in the dark that uncertainties were already beginning to emerge around this event".
  3. Robert Durrer, The Swiss Guard in Rome and The Swiss in Papal Service , 2012, p. 4 .
  4. so on a coat of arms by Carl Aegeri, 1554; Swiss Institute for Art Research Inv. No. 86438.
  5. Schwyzer Kreuz - Swiss Cross  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , State Chancellery Canton Schwyz@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sz.ch  
  6. Canton Schwyz on GenWiki, going back to Mühlemann, s. Bibliography