Wooden shoe (heraldry)

The wooden shoe is a common figure in heraldry and is rarely used in shields or fields as a heraldic figure .

The wooden shoe is said to have been used in the coat of arms since the 12th century. All tinctures are possible. Two forms can be distinguished: the trip shoe (actually shoe with trippe) and the more modern, simple shoe shape.

In the coat of arms of the Nuremberg nobility Holzschuher von Harrlach , the shoe in the coat of arms serves as a speaking figure .

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  Wooden shoes from Harrlach

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  Happurg

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  Friedrichswalde

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  La Sabotterie

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  Supply

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  Vestenbergsgreuth

See also

• Shoe and boots

literature

• Wooden shoe (Heraldry) in the Heraldry Wiki
• Otto Titan von Hefner : Basic Saeze of the heraldic art. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1855, p. 38 and Fig. 258. 259.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Explanations of Heraldry, as a commentary on Hofrath Gatterer's outline of this science. Volume 1, Verlag Adam Gottlieb Schneiderischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, Nuremberg 1789, p. 135.