growing and half (heraldry)

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above half a flight (as part of a bird a separate picture), below a growing golden lion

As a growing and half is called in heraldry a figure only partially shown, mostly in human or animal form , but also different. The two forms of representation are a fundamental aspect of the increase in coats of arms , i.e. the merging of two coats of arms while retaining their characteristic main elements, when both are roughly equal. In particular, half can also stand for itself, for example in a talking coat of arms .

About the terms

Growing emblazoned to figures, the lower or rear half with a different figure ( Herold image or common figure or on such covered) plate edge is arranged such that they seem to emerge from the same.

On the other hand, the part of a figure is called half when it hovers , i.e. does not touch the edge of the field. It is consistently arranged in the middle of the field, while the growing figure stands primarily according to its proportions.

Standing figures grow from below, but quadrupeds mostly from the left (rear, right from the viewer) edge of the field. If it does not surrender casually, has from the left edge of plate , from left growing or rather growing are given. Specifically, the lion , which is normally erect, grows from below, the striding (leoparded) lion and the leopard (the striding, looking 'lion') from the left, and the leopard in turn from below.

Example of a growing human figure and the same crest

In German - deviating from the basic rule - one speaks of half figure for growing, i.e. half a lion , but only for human figures, some heraldic animals and objects, otherwise it is half clear: a growing lily appears to be covered, half a lily is cut off. More specifically, there is also a front wolf (the front half of a wolf, floating) or a wheel below (the lower half of the wheel, floating).

A special case in this regard and the eagle represents: the growing eagle rises from below, ie from division or sign foot . In contrast, half an eagle grows out of the split . He always shows his whole head, i.e. tilts it away from the dividing line, and also looks away from it (the eagle is almost never actually halved, otherwise there is no change of posture in principle with all other figures when growing, but only a harmonious adaptation) . A double-headed eagle can emerge from the arrangement of two half eagles at the gap, one looking forward, the other looking back . A free-floating half of the eagle cannot be found.

If the helmet ornament is emblazoned as growing , this means that it merges seamlessly into the helmet cover without a bulge. This often corresponds to the coat of arms, but can also be independent of it.

  • growing and half

  • on the right half an eagle, on the left a wheel growing out of the gap ( Cedynia  PL)

  • one (upper) half wheel ( upper wheel  DE, speaking)

A figure must be distinguished, growing and half from the representation of individual parts, which are usually considered to be an independent derived figure.
A split or split figure, on the other hand, is not a partial figure, but changes color.

Growing means naissant in French , issuant in English . English-French sometimes add a demi-'half ': Demi-lion for the growing lion, but also Demi-fleur-de-lis for the half floating lily.

Special shapes are (smoothly) cut off and torn off , which is specifically differentiated in Anglo-French heraldry as coupeé : the second is frayed, and in living beings can even be dripped with blood, and can denote specially cut parts. Torn off occurs in half figures as well as in parts of a figure.

More ancient is also found emerging for each growing . Protruding stands specifically for wild animals, as they naturally say in the hunter's language, and emerging, protruding for left-growing when the animal walks. A jumping deer could break out of the base of the shield (from below) (grow), or break out of the left edge of the shield (grow to the left): Both times the two visible forelegs would be raised. A horse would step forward (which makes it clear that it is growing from the left edge of the shield - or the split -). Growing and half can also be used for special arrangements or figures, and then emblazoned differently:

See also

Web links

Commons : growing (heraldry)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Increase in coat of arms , Bernhard Peter, Wappenkunde
  2. ↑ Examples according to Bernhard Peter: Correct and good blazon : Vocabulary: parts of objects .
  3. ↑ There is, however, a lying eagle wing , closed at the front with an eagle head turned to the left (Heinsheim DE)Coat of arms Heinsheim.png
  4. ↑ on the problem of the blazon of the helmet ornament with regard to the helmet facing the viewer or the right-handed helmet see Bernhard Peter: Plea for better German in blazons: Better blazons: wearer-related descriptors. Examples of “goose crouching to the right / lion growing to the right”.
    See also the adjacent picture in Siebmacher, where the heraldist turns the right-facing helmet slightly towards the shield in order to place the figure in three-quarter profile so that it is represented informatively.
  5. ↑ Coat of arms Lengenrieden.png a wheel in mixed up colors , not two “half wheels”: that means that the two parts are designed differently (Lengenrieden, DE).
  6. ↑ Example from Growing , heraldik-wiki.de