Geldern rose
The Geldern Rose , also Geldrische Rose or medlar flower, is a heraldic coat of arms symbol and a common figure .
origin
The Geldern Rose , although referred to as a variation of the heraldic rose, represents a medlar blossom . It comes from a variant of the dragon-slayer legend around the year 878, in which Messrs Wichard and Lupold von Pont fought and killed a fire-breathing dragon living under a medlar tree . The rattle of the dying dragon handed down as "Gelre", led to the naming of the soon founded on the site of city funds (see below) and the start of Mispelblüte as heraldic rose three times in the oldest city arms to the already in the Middle Ages the money Generic lion Added to this was. There is also evidence that it belongs to the insignia of the counts and later dukes of Geldern as the Geldern Rose . In the coat of arms of Erkelenz , it is provided with five pointed red petals, five green, pointed sepals and five-pointed golden calyx with green dots, in other images replaced with black instead of green as a tinge , the sepals sometimes also rounded.
description
Like the other variations of the heraldic rose, the Geldern rose is depicted with a sepal down and a petal up. Originally completely white (silver) that Geldernsche rose five expiring in small spikes petals, five pointed sepals and a circular flower center, also slugs called button or Plötzlein, which expires in accordance with the flowers Symmetry in a five-pointed star, the emblem of the city Kevelaer to stylized in a pentagram. Sometimes, as with the other heraldic roses, the slug appears round, the five rays merely represented by dividing lines between the petals. Like the similar looking Lippe rose , the Geldern rose is a special case of the representation of the heraldic rose, given its own name and clearly defined in the representation in the coat of arms .
use
Three white Geldern roses in the coat of arms of the city of Viersen
Gocher coat of arms with Geldernscher rose and lion
Kevelaerer coat of arms with Geldernscher rose
The Geldern rose can be found three times in the coat of arms of the city of Geldern next to the golden Geldern lion (originally only three silver roses (medlars)) as in the coat of arms of Viersen (there rotated by 36 °), in the coat of arms of Kerken , in its communities of origin Aldekerk (white) and Nieukerk (red), von Klein-Kevelaer , in red in the coat of arms of the city of Erkelenz and in gold in the coat of arms of Kevelaer .
See also
literature
- Rolf Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch. The coats of arms of the municipalities, cities and districts in the area of the Rhineland Regional Council. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne (ie: Pulheim) 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0816-7 .
- Mathias Baux. Chronicle of the city of Erkelenz and the country of Geldern , edited by Hiram Kümper and the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV, 2 volumes, Erkelenz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815182-9-0
