Beam (heraldry)

Stralsund city ​​coat of arms

The ray , also called Stral , is a common figure in heraldry and therefore also a heraldic figure . In a broader sense, it is an arrowhead. The best known is the figure from the Stralsund coat of arms , which here also refers to the city name. In Polish it is called strzala .

For example, the coat of arms for the Herb Ogonczyk, a ray in red with a half ring, on whose arch a silver ray stands upright, is assigned to a community of coats of arms. This herb stands for about 300 families.

The heraldic figure can have all heraldic tingings .

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  Herb Ogonczyk, Polish coat of arms community

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  Züle (noble family)

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  Herb Ostrogski, Polish coat of arms community

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  Gallin

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  Waldow (noble family)

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  Straelen on the Lower Rhine

See also

• bow and arrow

literature

• Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 , p. 385.