Gear (heraldry)
The gear wheel as a machine component has found its place in modern heraldry . It stands for industrialization and especially for important machine or car manufacturing in a region.
Presentation and use
As a herald image, it is counted among the common figures and is used in a strongly stylized way . It is an element of the large application of the wheels in the coat of arms.
The coloring is done in the heraldic tinctures . Confusion with the mill wheel is possible, the blazon , i.e. the description of the coat of arms, is decisive as to which wheel is meant. Baranavichy combines a golden, shortened half-toothed ring with a steam locomotive of the same color, divided into red and green.
It symbolizes trade or industry, especially mechanical engineering or mechanics . Especially municipalities with the will to use a modern coat of arms use this form. The GDR and the USSR discovered heraldry late and had new coats of arms created for cities and communities with "developed socialist industry" and partially replaced the old historically developed ones. But it is also used in Hürth in the Rhineland or in Wickede (Ruhr) . Aruba , Benin , Botswana , Burma , China , Cambodia and Vietnam have or had the gear in their coats of arms.
Two interlocking gears are rarer. Special forms are, for example, the clock wheel or various special gears.
Italy uses it as a set of signs in the national coat of arms.
Examples
Clock wheel, placed in a slant
(heraldic pattern)
Vane gear
( Guipavas FR)
lower gear
( Heidenau DE)
Ratchet wheel
( Incheville FR)
Gear wheel as a set of signs
( Italy )
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literature
- ^ Gert Oswald : Lexicon Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984.
