Fox (heraldic animal)
The fox is in the heraldry an emblem .
description
Very often it is approximately equal to the original in a red color tinged . As a common figure , his depiction in the coat of arms is not as classic as is usual with the large number of heraldic animals. The fox is shown standing or running, the hunter would describe it as strangling . Sitting is also a common representation. Frick's coat of arms shows him jumping . The tail (tail) is shown to be particularly bushy and in some pictures the tip as whitewashed. The most commonly depicted color of the fox is red, but we can also find it in white, black, gold, silver, and even blue, yellow and green.
Different coloring of the reinforcement is not common. Sometimes something is stuck in the fox's muzzle for decoration, such as B. a bunch of grapes that he wears in the catch in the coat of arms of the Thuringian nobility of Jena .
In the visor view the fox shows the cunning and cunning that it is said to be.
The fox has many other names. This ranges from Voss in the Low German language as a word for fox to the fabulous name Reinicke . The coat of arms of the Reinickendorf district in Berlin is talking to Reinicke or the coat of arms of Voßwinkel , a district of Arnsberg , with Voss . "Talking" is also used in Vohburg an der Donau ; the fox is derived from the old high German foha in the place name . It is similar in Vohenstrauss , this is a vohe , vixen.
The noble family Cimburg (Jarosch von Fuchsberg, 1237–1271) had a common identification mark. It was a running fox on their helmets . That should not only show the possible relationship, but the descent from the Ctiborians . That could be an early proof in the coat of arms .
Coat of arms of those of Jena (1903)
Fox in the coat of arms of Gifhorn-Winkel
in fields 2 and 3 of the Treuchtlinger coat of arms
Fox in the coat of arms of Vosswinkel
Coat of arms of those von Kleist
Vixen (female) in the coat of arms of Vohenstrauss
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literature
- Ottfried Neubecker: Large coat of arms – picture lexicon of the bourgeois families of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 3. Edition. Battenberg Gietl, Regenstauf 2008, ISBN 978-3-86646-038-6 .
- Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt (founder), Ludwig Biewer (edit.): Handbook of Heraldry. (Crest brooch). 19th, improved and enlarged edition. Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-65-0 .
