Schacht (heraldry)
Schacht , also flaked, diced, ashlar pieces, chess, symbolic cards, square chip , is in heraldry the term for a multiple division and division of a shield into several square places of the same size , which have to alternate in the tincture ( checkerboard pattern ). It is a heraldic image .
The shaft is always rectangular, horizontally and vertically, and when stretched diagonally, it is called roughened . If the chess pattern is shown in the form of a bar , it is referred to as a chess bar or a nested bar .
Blazon
The following agreements apply to the blazon (description of the coat of arms): If there are more than nine seats, these are not counted. In this case one speaks of an uncounted slaughtered shield, slaughtered without addition. These are counted up to nine places. A nine-chested shield is a very common herald image in the group of slaughtered coats of arms. It is created by dividing and splitting twice. Five of the squares, divided in alternating tincture, form the field and four form the herald's picture.
When blazoning a shield with, for example, red and silver (white) squares, you start by specifying the top right (heraldic) square, e.g. B. in the case that this is red: "A chess for nine places or nine chess of red and silver."
The nine-shaft shield can also be viewed as a cross broken out in the middle . Since the cross touches the edge of the shield on all arms, the figure remains a herald's image from this perspective.
Examples
Coat of arms of the Republic of Croatia : Shield uncounted in red and silver
Moravian eagle : In blue, the red and silver boxed eagle with gold reinforcement, crowned with gold
Coat of arms of the Spanheimers (including the Dukes of Carinthia), Grafschaft Sponheim : Shield countless sheathed in red and silver
Counts of Geneva : Nine shaft of gold and blue
Counts of the Mark : golden field with bars in three rows of red and silver (without crest coat of arms of the city of Hamm )
Family coat of arms of the von Spiczak Brzeziński family : split, blue in front, red and silver in the back in five rows.
chased thirty times of silver and red (coat of arms of Bad Honnef )
back in gold two bars in three rows of red and silver (coat of arms of Swisttal )
Split and half divided over a shield base, divided into four rows of black and silver ( Teltow-Fläming district )
three rows to four places of black and silver box (coat of arms of Trebbin )
rear blue-silver box (coat of arms of the city of Vetschau )
Gold-blue box (coat of arms of the city of Dreux )
of gold and blue in four rows with ten (4: 3: 2: 1) places ( Spielberg coat of arms )
Sheathed in blue and silver below (coat of arms of Oberwinterthur )
See also
- Wecke (heraldry) , the diamond assignment
- Furs , the finer patterns
- List of coats of arms with the Brandenburg chess bar
- Chessboard (heraldry)