Unterschwaningen Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Unterschwaningen, Landkreis Ansbach, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-07-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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Unterschwaningen Municipality

Unterschwaningen Banner

It is a red-white-black vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 July 2020

Unterschwaningen Coat of Arms

Shield quartered of Argent and Sable, over all a swan passant Argent armed Gules.
Meaning:
On 19 November 1599 Margrave Georg Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach granted the arms to the local court of Schwaningen. The usage of seals with arms was forbidden in Bayern in 1818, but the arms were confirmed for the municipality by King Maximilian II of Bayern in 1860. The quartered shield displays the arms of the Zollern kin. The swan is a canting element.
Source: Stadler 1968, p.82
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 July 2020

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