Zurich coat of arms roll

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Coats of arms of various lines of the Tübingen Count Palatine

The Zurich coat of arms roll was made around 1335/1345 by an unknown chronicler as a register of coats of arms in the form of a long parchment roll .

History of origin

Even if the client and origin are not certain, St. Gallen , Konstanz or Pfäfers are suspected as possible places of origin. The Zurich natural scientist and historian Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733) was the first owner of the roll of arms known by name . His nephew, the Schaffhausen bailiff Johannes Schleuchzer, bequeathed it to the Burgerbibliothek (city library) in Zurich around 1750 . The heraldist Heinrich Runge participated in the facsimile publication by the Antiquarian Society of Zurich in 1860 .

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The Zurich coat of arms roll is considered the most important and is probably the oldest surviving coat of arms collection of the high and low nobility of the Middle Ages . Most of the coats of arms shown come from German-speaking Switzerland , from the area around Lake Constance , from Alsace and from Baden . Among the pictured coat of arms are the lines of Tübingen Palatine, dioceses and noble families and even today still used in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Gemeindewappen .

Of the four strips of parchment once sewn together, each 12.5 centimeters high and around four meters long, three have been preserved with 559 coats of arms and 28 banners from dioceses. The 108 original coats of arms of the lost strip have been handed down in copies.

Whereabouts

Today, the Zurich coat of arms is on loan from the Antiquarian Society in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. A replica made by the painter Hans Conrad Bernhauser (1698–1761) in the style of the 14th century is in the Zurich Central Library . It contains the lost part of the original scroll with another 108 coats of arms.

See also

literature

  • Antiquarian society in Zurich, Heinrich Runge : The roll of arms of Zurich. A heraldic monument of the fourteenth century in a true color replica of the original with the coat of arms from the house of the hole . Self-publishing by society; Printed by D. Bürkli, 1860 digitized ; New edition Walther Merz, Friedrich Hegi. Orell Füssli , Zurich 1930 (with lithographs based on the original; online in the Google book search and digitized version of the ULB Düsseldorf - with a redrawing of the complete set of coats of arms).
  • Michel Popoff (Ed.): Le role d'armes de Zurich , Editions du Léopard d'or, Paris 1986, ISBN 978-286377055-9 (= Documents d'heraldique medievale , 9).

Web links

Commons : Zürcher Wappenrolle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter F. Kopp: coat of arms. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on January 3, 2009
  2. ↑ Zurich's coat of arms on ahnegruebler.ch ( memento from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3, 2009
  3. ↑ Das Land Steiermark: Züricher Wappenrolle ( Memento from October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3, 2009
  4. ↑ 4 °, folio. LXXXVIII, 316 p .; with 32 lithographed coats of arms in color with explanatory numbering and names on intermediate papers and 8 b / w. Sealing plates with explanatory text on intermediate papers, as well as numerous text images. First, only and limited to 800 edition of the most extensive and detailed treatise on the famous Zurich coat of arms, published on behalf of the Antiquarian Society. Facsimilized in excellent color lithographs. The stones were sanded off after printing.