List of municipal coats of arms with the scallop in Austria

This article contains the list of municipal coats of arms with the scallop shell in Austria .

As scallops or scallops are two closely related species of mussels referred both to the genus Pecten belong. The name scallop goes back to Saint James , the patron saint of pilgrims , whose distinguishing mark is the shell.

Carinthia
	Gallicia In blue a silver tip reaching to the head of the shield and in the right and left parts of the heart each one jagged point with a blue wedge rising to below the summit, in front accompanied by [two crossed] silver pilgrim sticks [covered] with a scallop, behind by one soaring silver, gold crowned and gold-tongued serpent. Explanation: In the coat of arms, the silver jagged tip symbolizes the municipality's "local mountain", the Hochobir , and the blue wedge in it symbolizes the Wildenstein waterfall . The scallop shell and the pilgrim staffs it occupies are attributes of the parish priest James the Elder . The crowned silver snake alludes to a local legend. The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the community on January 10, 1986. The flag is blue and white with an incorporated coat of arms.
	Reichenfels In a blue shield there is a naturally colored, old crystalline rock, the summit of which is surrounded by a silver scallop shell on the right and left. Explanation: Although a market since the middle of the 15th century, Reichenfels was only granted the right to use a seal on March 24, 1557 by Bishop Georg von Bamberg . The seal showed the parish patron, the apostle James the Elder, as a full figure with a pilgrim's staff and cloak, who held a coat of arms with a jagged rock and two scallops in his left hand. Saint James also acted in more recent representations as a shield holder or (in a seal from 1595) even as the main character of the Reichenfels coat of arms. On the occasion of the formal certification or award of the coat of arms and flag in 1971, on the recommendation of the State Archives, only the "talking" inland shield with the old crystalline rock (the "rich rock") and the two silver scallops, which indicate the patron, remained. The flag of the municipality of Reichenfels is blue and white with an incorporated coat of arms.
	Sankt Jakob im Rosental In the shield, which is divided diagonally to the left, there is a pilgrim shell in red above, and a red rose in silver below. Explanation: The shell is the attribute and the symbol of the parish priest James the Elder, the red, five-petalled rose symbolizes the rose valley to which the community belongs and which it bears in its name - however, its name is not derived from the rose, but from three Castles of the Lords of Ras: from the Rasburg built in the High Middle Ages on the Gratschenitzen (also: Gratschützen) west of Rosenbach, a second castle in Schlatten (Ras Castle) and the third in today's Rosegg (Rosegg castle ruins). The coat of arms and the flag were awarded to the municipality of St. Jakob on May 16, 1980, the flag is red and white with an incorporated coat of arms.
Lower Austria
	Gedersdorf Above a blue shield base with four silver wavy strips, the coat of arms shows a golden scallop shell, a golden lily and a golden vine on a green shield.
	Guntramsdorf
	Kautzen
	Lichtenau in the Waldviertel Under a blue shield head in red a golden diagonal right bar covered with three red scallops.
	Puchenstuben
	Notch field The heraldic shield, divided in the middle, contains two red shells next to each other in the upper white field and a white sea shell in the lower red field.
Upper Austria
	Roitham am Traunfall Humbled by red and green, divided by a silver bar broken by a right step; Above under the silver, continuous Traunfall Bridge a silver Kaplan water turbine, below a golden shell. Explanation: Under the Traunfall Bridge , the turbine and stage symbolize the power plant and the Traunfall itself. The shell as an attribute of St. James stands for the parish patron. The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1985.
	Bowl In silver over a blue, wavy shield base, two blue, diagonally crossed tear hooks with red handles, covered by a red, overturned shell.
	Schönau in the Mühlkreis Two black, diagonally crossed fires in gold, including a red shell. Explanation: The fires are a coat of arms of the Pranter ministerial family who built the first Prandegg castle at the beginning of the 13th century . The red shell stands for Saint James, the church patron, and symbolizes a pilgrim shell. The community colors are red and yellow. The municipal coat of arms and colors were awarded on April 24, 1972.
Styria
	Lassing In a shield divided diagonally to the right by gold and green, a blue tower pierced by a gate and two windows in the gold field and a gold pilgrim shell in the green field. Explanation: Originally the municipality consisted of two independent municipalities: the golden half of the coat of arms stands for Lassing-Sonnseite, the green half for the sub-municipality Lassing-Schattseite, the tower symbolizes Strechau Castle , the shell as the symbol of Saint Jakob, the patron saint of Lassing Church.
	Soboth In a silver shield above a blue shield base covered with two silver fallen scallops, a silver wave bar, covered with seven individually juxtaposed blue waves, above a green three-cornered mountain, the middle tip of which extends to the upper edge of the shield and is covered with three silver long prismatic rock crystals growing from common parent rock . Explanation: The coat of arms contains heraldic symbols for the geographical location, the economic history and the ecclesiastical conditions of the community area: the scallops refer to the two cadastral communities Soboth and Laaken, the wave bar symbolizes the flowing waters of the community area, the rock crystals stand for the quartz as the basis of the Glass production in the area of ​​Soboth and Pack, the green three mountain of the frame stands for the alpine world of the surroundings of Soboth. The coat of arms was awarded to the community in 2009 and presented on March 7, 2010 during a celebration.
	Thal Two silver posts in red, each post covered with six shells in shadow color. Explanation: The stakes come from the family coat of arms of the oldest verifiable aristocratic manor "von Waldsdorf". The shells refer to the parish patron, Apostle James the Elder. The coat of arms was officially awarded on July 11, 1987.
Tyrol
	St. Jakob in Defereggen A silver shell in green, covered with the black mining symbols of Schlägl and Eisen, in the head of the shield a whole and two half overturned silver tips. Explanation: The main field of the municipality's coat of arms with the mountain cut stands for the Staller Sattel, over which Bavarian settlers populated the high valley. The scallop symbolizes Saint James; he is not only the namesake of the parish church, as the patron saint of traveling traders and hat makers, he also represents two formerly important professions. The mining symbol stands for the equally important mining in the Defereggental in the early modern period. The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1975 by the Tyrolean state government.
	St. Jacob in house Explanation: The three golden scallops are reminiscent of the pilgrims passing through, the black rafters of a house gable, which symbolizes the name of the settlement "house".
	Strass in the Zillertal In the green shield, on which a silver pilgrim's staff and a silver shell are placed, three silver tips covered with green trefoils coming from the left edge of the shield. Explanation: The shell and the pilgrim's staff are the symbol of St. Jacob, the patron of the Strasser parish church, the clovers refer to the Rotholz Agricultural College , which started teaching in 1879. The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality on May 12, 1964.
	Streets Divided by blue and black by a silver sloping left wavy bar, in the black field a silver scallop shell. Explanation: It symbolizes the name of the community with the curved silver stripe and reminds with the shell of St. James , church patron of the community, with the blue field of the former Messensee. The coat of arms was awarded on October 8, 1985 by the Tyrolean state government.

See also

→ Main article : List of coats of arms with the scallop shell

• Christian symbols in heraldry

Individual evidence

1. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 108
2. ↑ see on this "The Enchanted Jungfrau von Wildenstein" In: Grabner, "Sagen aus Kärnten", Graz 1941 ( online version on haben.at ).
3. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 228
4. ↑ http://www.lichtenau.gv.at/system/web/sonderseite.aspx?menuonr=218581958&detailonr=218581958
5. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 7th supplement (1984-1987) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 4, 1988, p. 235 f., Online (PDF; 7.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria, regional history: coat of arms of the community of Schönau (accessed on October 29, 2008)
7. ^ Ordinance of the Styrian regional government of September 14, 2009 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Soboth (political district Deutschlandsberg). Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of September 23, 2009. Volume 2009, No. 84, Issue 27, page 398.
8. ↑ Information ( memento of December 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of the Styrian state government of March 8, 2010 about the awarding of the municipal coat of arms.
9. ↑ Soboth receives municipal coat of arms. Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau from March 12, 2010. Volume 83, No. 10. Page 1.
10. ↑ Regional studies of East Tyrol, pp. 353–358
11. ↑ Description of the coat of arms on the website of the municipality of Strassen , accessed on November 11, 2015
12. ↑ The coat of arms of the municipality of Strassen on www.gemeinde-strassen.at , accessed on November 11, 2015