Waltershofen (Meitingen)

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Waltershofen
Meitingen market
Waltershofen coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 429 m
Residents : 802  (2014)
Postal code : 86405
Area code : 08271

Waltershofen is a village and district of the market Meitingen in the Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria ( Germany ).

Waltershofen is one of the border towns of the Alemannic dialect area to Bavarian.

history

Until the regional reform in Bavaria on January 1, 1972, Waltershofen was a district of Westendorf in the district of Wertingen . On this day it was re- municipalityed to Meitingen .

Waltershofen belongs to the Catholic parish Sankt Georg in Westendorf .

Coat of arms

Due to the lack of historical independence as a self-governing village, Waltershofen is the only district of Meitingen that does not have an official coat of arms . Although the sovereign legal significance of the coats of arms of other incorporated districts has also been lost since the incorporation, they are still allowed to use their historical coats of arms for representational purposes. However, the raising of a new unofficial coat of arms on this basis is excluded by constitutional law. In 2017, a citizens' initiative under private law, based on the local associations, donated a coat of arms for the market town. This was historically derived, elaborated and selected through a public vote by the residents of the district with the support of the district home maintenance of the district, local politics, the market town and a heraldist. The latter took place as part of the 20th anniversary of the Bürgerhaus; The winning coat of arms was one of five pre-selected designs and received 69 of 212 votes.

The coat of arms is registered in the coat of arms of the Löwen coat of arms, a heraldic society based in Munich .

Blazon :

“Above a blue corrugated shield base, in it two silver corrugated beams, split by red and silver; at the top two overturned and shortened tips, underneath two inwardly turned swans with golden armor, swimming on the wavy line, all in exchanged tinctures. "

Description (taken from the registration application for the roll of arms):

It is a speaking coat of arms, since the two overturned points heraldically convert the first letter »W«. The swans stand for the nature reserve on the Lech, the two silver wave bars in the blue wave shield base for Lech and Lech Canal. The dominant color canon red and silver is borrowed from the coat of arms of the bishopric of Augsburg, which was the dominant landowner until secularization.

Web links

Commons : Waltershofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 786 .
  2. ↑ Margret Sturm: The citizens are in demand. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Peter Heider: A W with two swans. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The coat of arms lion e. V. Accessed December 28, 2018 .