Flight (heraldry)
Flight ( pl. Flights ), also wing , is a name for both wings of a bird in heraldry .
Design and use
The flight occurs in coats of arms , but more often as helmet gems . A distinction is made between an open flight , a closed flight and a half flight :
- If the helmet and the extended flight are shown frontally to the viewer, one speaks of an open flight.
- In a closed flight, the helmet and the two wings are shown seen from one side or at a slight angle, whereby the rear wing must be a little visible.
- If only one wing can be seen, it is half a flight.
The hand wings always point outwards by default, or at half flight to the heraldic left and at the tips upwards (raised wings); if they point upwards (point in front, heraldic right), the flight is lying down ; if they point down, the flight is prone and overturned - and accordingly left-facing and left-lying in a mirrored position.
Half the flight with a claw (catch) on the wing ( claw wing ) can be found in many coats of arms. The claw preferably holds a sword.
If an open flight is strongly abstracted and made rectangular, it is a banner flight .
A special feature is the depiction of a kite flying in the coat of arms . For this purpose, only the skin wings with the claws of the dragon are shown as a separate coat of arms.
Helmet gem: Open flight ( Herb Erbs PL)
Open flight ( Albrecht Dürer )
Open flight ( Herb Nieczuja PL)
Half flight turned to the right ( Johann Hunyadi )
Green Claw Wings ( Lauterstein DE)
Claw wings as a helmet ornament (heraldic pattern)
Open banner flight ( Bakum DE)
Family coat of arms of the Counts of Nassau (Ottonian line)
Coat of arms of the Lords of Üsenberg
literature
- Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984 (also: Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Klammer's little heraldry: The helmet ornament ( Memento from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Examples of a closed flight in Scheibler's Wappenbuch : No. 00420; 00459, 00495; online , Digitale-sammlungen.de
- ↑ Antonio Manno (Ed.): Vocabolario araldico ufficiale. Seguito dal Dizionarietto di voci araldiche francesi tradotte in italiano. Civelli, Rome 1907.