Swiss heraldry
The Swiss heraldry is dominated by the influence of the arms being of the neighboring states of the country. Most of the Swiss coats of arms are clear and simple. The coats of arms adopted by oneself in the personal, cantonal and communal areas outweigh the number of coats of arms awarded by foreign princes in the course of the eventful history. This heraldry is characterized by simple heraldic pictures alongside motifs from human life and activity. The earliest guild coats of arms originated in Switzerland .
Around 1800, the helmet - analogous to the French Jacobin cap - was replaced by the Tellen hat, a national symbol of freedom in Switzerland. The Swiss are said to have a certain joy in coats of arms, and today many farms and town houses still have personal or gender coats of arms.
See also
- Municipality (Switzerland) #Lists of Swiss municipalities
- List of coats of arms and flags of the Swiss cantons
- Coat of arms of the bourgeois families of the city of Bern
- Swiss coat of arms
literature
- Milan boys : Heraldry ("Heraldica"). Albatros Publishing House, Prague 1987.
- Paul Ganz : History of heraldic art in Switzerland in the 12th and 13th centuries . Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 1899.
- Albert Iten, Ernst Zumbach: The Zuger Wappenbuch . Kalt-Zehnder Verlag, Zug 1975 (supplement to the “Zuger Neujahrsblatt”).
- Walter Leonhard : The great book of heraldic art. Development, elements, motifs . Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8289-0768-7 .
- Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry . Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 .
- The coat of arms of Switzerland. Armorial de la Suisse (collector's book for Kaffee-Hag coats of arms) undated (around 1930).
Web links
- Website of the Swiss Heraldic Society (German / French / Italian)
- Website of the Swiss Coat of Arms and Flags Foundation (German)
- Overview of the motifs on Swiss municipal coats of arms on a private page (German)