Wachenburg heraldic gate
The Wachenburg coat of arms gate is part of the Wachenburg castle complex near Weinheim.
meaning
On the outer front, it bears the color coats of arms and circles of the corps of the Weinheim Senior Citizens 'Convent (WSC) carved in stone before the merger with the Rudolstadt Senior Citizens' Convention and is therefore a memorial-historical representation of the WSC in its original composition from the Corps of Technical Universities and mining academies as well as the Hohenheim Agricultural University .
history
The Wachenburg's coat of arms gate is one of the buildings in the Wachenburg, which was built between 1907 and 1913 and was completed at the beginning of this first construction phase. After the inauguration of the keep on May 31, 1908, the castle tavern and the coat of arms gate were opened on May 29, 1909. With the exception of the coat of arms of the Corps Helvetia Zurich , which was suspended in 1865, the coats of arms of all WSC corps from 1909 were attached to the outer front. These were successively supplemented by further coats of arms. Finally, the coat of arms of the Corps Montania Breslau was attached, which was included in the WSC in 1926. The room above the doorway was expanded into the Rheno Guestphalen room in 1930 .
Explanation of the color coat of arms
The color coats of arms are arranged according to local senior citizens' conventions (SC) and within the SC according to the anciency of the corps in the respective SC.
In the top middle row, below the window, is the SC zu Karlsruhe with the Corps Franconia , Bavaria , Saxonia , Alemannia , Frisia and Cheruskia from left to right .
The lower middle row shows the SC zu Hannover with from left to right the Corps Saxonia , Teutonia , Slesvico-Holsatia , Alemannia , Ostfalia , Macaro-Visurgia and Hannovera .
On the left in the 1st row from above you can see the SC zu Freiberg with the Corps Montania , Teutonia , Franconia and Saxo-Borussia , in the 2nd row from the top the SC zu Dresden with the Corps Teutonia , Thuringia , Marcomannia , Franconia and Old Saxony and in the 3rd row from the top the SC zu Darmstadt with the Corps Hassia , Rhenania, Franconia , Obotritia and Chattia.
Below are two triples of coats of arms. The left triple shows the Aachener SC with the Corps Marko-Guestphalia , Delta and Montania, the right triple shows the SC zu Braunschweig with the Corps Rhenania , Teutonia-Hercynia and Marchia, read from left to right and top to bottom. The bottom row on the left shows the SC zu Clausthal with the Corps Hercynia , Montania and Borussia.
On the right side of the coat of arms gate, the Danziger SC with the Corps Saxonia , Baltica , Borussia and Cheruskia is shown in the 1st row from the top . The 2nd row from above shows the SC zu Berlin-Charlottenburg with the Corps Rheno-Guestphalia, Saxonia, Guestphalia, Pomerania-Silesia and Berolina. In the 3rd row from the top is the SC zu Stuttgart with the Corps Teutonia, Rhenania, Stauffia and Bavaria.
In the 4th and 5th row from the top on the right side you can see the coats of arms of the corps of the SC of the TH Munich and the SC zu Hohenheim. From left to right and from top to bottom, these are the Munich Corps Cisaria , Rheno-Palatia , Vitruvia, Germania , Guestphalia , Rupertia , Normannia and Vandalia as well as the Hohenheim Corps Germania and Suevia . In the bottom row on the right side, the Breslauer SC is shown with the Corps Neo Franconia , Frisia and Montania .
literature
- Hans Schüler: Weinheimer SC-Chronik , pp. 79–81, Darmstadt 1927
- The Wachenburg, its becoming and growing . In: Handbook for the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention . Chapter 2.3.2., 1971
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '57.4 " N , 8 ° 41' 9.3" E