Dove (heraldic animal)
The dove is not only a Christian symbol in heraldry as a special form of representation of the Holy Spirit , but also a common figure and a heraldic animal .
The French order of knights, the Order of the Holy Spirit, has chosen it as a symbol and is shown on the front of the green enamelled central shield. A dove of peace embodies the symbol of peace and is often shown in silver in the coat of arms , as a bird with a branch in its beak - so in Törökszentmiklós ( Turkish sanktniklas ) in the upper coat of arms and the shield - or stylized with the same intention in Eisenhüttenstadt . The dove is the attribute of the holy Adelgundis . As such a feature it is in the coat of arms of Wiebelsheim . A swept dove is the coat of arms of the Moravian aristocratic family Stránecký von Stránec. a. in the coat of arms of Stránecká Zhoř .
A special representation is the vertically, rarely from the corner of a coat of arms, flying downwards with wings wide open ( flight directed towards the base of the shield ) and a small drop in front of the beak. Silver, rarely gold, is standard as the heraldic animal color . This dove symbolizes the legend of the sacred ampoule . Then you should commemorating the baptism of I. Clovis , a Frankish king of the dynasty of the Merovingian in Reims have fallen to the celebration of the king of heaven a dove miraculously and an oil-filled bottle have worn. The existence of the Order of the Holy Ampulla , donated by Clovis I as a knightly order in France on this occasion, is not clearly proven.
In the parish of Arch , the coat of arms is depicted speaking and the scene from the Bible.
In Japanese symbolism, the dove has also conquered its place as a lucky charm. The coat of arms of the Fiji Islands is known , where it is in the lower field in front (heraldic right). The only coat of arms in the coat of arms of the Republic of Cyprus is the dove, ready to fly with a branch in its beak.
In the depiction of the dragon pigeon as a mystical heraldic animal made up of dove and dragon, it is a hybrid being. Both pigeon forms are not very common.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic-Technological Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, town, house and agriculture, and the history of art . Vol. 125: Ring to Roche. Buchhandlung Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1817, pp. 555–556 .
