Chess flower (heraldry)

The chess flower (lat .: Fritillaria meleagris ), also called checkerboard flower or Kiebitzei called, is in the Heraldry a rare coat of arms figure .

A special meaning for the heraldry is not known. In mythology she was the flower of Meleager . The inclined flower is supposed to symbolize the mourning over the death of the hunter who killed the Caledonian boar , in other spelling, Calydonian boar .

The representation in the coat of arms follows the general heraldic rules and the bell-like flower can be with or without a stem and leaf. Combinations with other heraldic figures are possible.

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  Hetlingen

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  Starfish Trouble

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  Grosssteinbach

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  Winseldorf

literature

• Walther Bremen: The old glass paintings and hollow glasses from the Bremen collection in Krefeld. Catalog (= Bonner Jahrbücher . Supplements. Vol. 13). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1964, p. 414.