Black Tern
The Utterschwalbe even Uttenschwalbe is in the heraldry an ambiguous particular emblem . It is represented as a black bird with red reinforcement (legs, beak) and resembles a black swan , a stork or a cormorant . It is also in Central Europe extinct Waldrapp interpreted as Utterschwalbe.
The Utterschwalbe has been the heraldic animal of the Barons of Closen since 1241 and is also represented in the municipal coat of arms of Beutelsbach (Lower Bavaria) .
Until 1847, the family coat of arms describes the von Closen family, who were wealthy in Arnstorf, as “a black swan or cormorant with red armor in gold”. The arms description of the community Beutelsbach (Lower Bavaria): "In gold under a silver-red gespickelten rafters a left-turned, reinforced red, black Uttenschwalbe."
literature
- Uttenschwalbe in the Heraldry Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner : Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany. Volume 1: A - F. Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1860, p. 237 .
- ↑ Anton Wiesend: Ninth annual report of the historical association for Lower Bavaria per 1860. In: Negotiations of the historical association for Lower Bavaria. Vol. 7, 1860, pp. 193-221, here p. 196 .
- ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner: Old Bavarian Heraldry. Department 1: Propaedeutics. Heraldisches Institut, Munich 1869, p. 37 .