Stargard arm

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Coat of arms of the Stargard reign

Stargard arm is a fixed name in heraldry for a coat of arms , which was used for the Stargard rule , but was often confused. In 1842, Ledebur describes the mistake in his forays through the fields of the royal Prussian coat of arms on page 119 as follows: "That one confuses the coat of arms of the County of Schwerin with that of the Stargard , namely the red and gold cross-divided field of Schwerin wrong on Stargard, the Stargarder Arm mit Ring, on the other hand, referred to Schwerin again, is an often criticized mistake that passed from the Mecklenburg coat of arms to the Prussian coat of arms in 1708, which can be traced back to the 16th century and is based on the erroneous assumption that the plan both the five-field and the seven-field Mecklenburg coat of arms are to be interpreted according to the title order. "

The title order often deviated from the coat of arms order and thus contained errors in the coat of arms description .

The description of a seal is: “An arm with a female puffed sleeve to cover the upper arm with a flying bow around the forearm and a ring between the fingers.” (Mecklenburgische Altertums-Gesellschaft) The description of the royal coat of arms according to the decree of January 9th 1817 indicates this field as follows: "In the red field an arm armed in silver, emerging from the left edge of the shield from a silver cloud , which holds a gold ring in which a precious stone is set." Various descriptions mention one over the arm laid napkin, but without clouds. Since there was never a noble family of Stargard, but only a landscape with this name, it already follows from this that a coat of arms can only be of recent origin. Under Duke Karl Leopold , the puffed sleeve and bow became a cloud.

The older images from the 16th and 17th centuries show the Mecklenburg coat of arms, where the Stargard shield was placed in field 3 and showed the female arm with a ring without a cloud. In the great coat of arms of Mecklenburg (field 1 Duchy of Mecklenburg : 2 Rule Rostock ; 3 Principality of Schwerin ; 4 Principality of Ratzeburg ; 5 Rule of Stargard ; 6 Principality of Wenden ; 7 County of Schwerin ), field 5 showed the rule of Stargard.

Compare the previously introduced erroneous type of blazon with the true one. Representation of the difference between title order and picture order in the coat of arms.

  • Main sign (title order - picture order):
    • Field 1: Duchy of Mecklenburg - Duchy of Mecklenburg
    • Field 2: Principality of Wenden - Rule of Rostock
    • Field 3: Principality of Schwerin - Principality of Schwerin
    • Field 4: Principality of Ratzeburg - Principality of Ratzeburg
    • Field 5: County Schwerin - Dominion Stargard
    • Field 6: Rule of Rostock - Principality of Wenden
  • Middle shield:
    • Stargard reign - Schwerin county
  • Helmets :
    • Helmet 1: Duchy of Mecklenburg - Duchy of Mecklenburg
    • Helmet 2: Dominion Stargard - County Schwerin
    • Helmet 3: Principality of Wenden - Rule of Rostock
    • Helmet 4: Principality of Schwerin - Principality of Schwerin
    • Helmet 5: Principality of Ratzeburg - Principality of Ratzeburg

Another interpretation of the coat of arms, which Ledebur ascribes to an anonymous text kept in the Mecklenburg-Güstrow library, relates to the marriages (1524 and 1505) of two dukes of Mecklenburg. Duke Albrecht VII of Mecklenburg (1486–1547) with Anna (1507–1567), daughter of the Brandenburg Elector Joachim l. , and Heinrich V (Mecklenburg) (1479–1552) with Ursula von Brandenburg (1488–1510), daughter of Elector Johann Cicero von Brandenburg. This arm protruding from the clouds in the shield means that marriage comes from heaven and the golden signet ring symbolizes marital fidelity.

  • Example of the classification of the Stargard arm in a large coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of the Margraves of Ansbach and Bayreuth with classification of the Stargard arm

literature

  • Bernhard von Köhne: The Meklenburg coat of arms. In: Berlin sheets for coin, seal and heraldry. Vol. 2, 1865, pp. 198-204 .
  • Leopold von Ledebur : Forays through the fields of the royal Prussian coat of arms. CG Lüderitz, Berlin 1842, p. 119 .
  • Horst Zänger: 850 years of Schwerin. A walk through the history of the country. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-83705-079-0 , p. 85.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Forays through the fields of the royal Prussian coat of arms. CG Lüderitz, Berlin 1842, p. 119.
  2. ↑ Johann Christoph Gatterer : Practical Heraldry. Bauer- and Mann'sche Buchhandlung, Nuremberg 1791, p. 141 .
  3. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Forays through the fields of the royal Prussian coat of arms. CG Lüderitz, Berlin 1842, p. 121.