Dinkelscherben Market Town (Germany)

Markt Dinkelscherben, Landkreis Augsburg, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-11-07 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: dinkelscherben | plant pot | spelt(ear) |
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Dinkelscherben Market Town

Dinkelscherben Banner

It is vertically divided red-white with coat of arms shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Olivier Touzeau, 19 Oct 2020

Dinkelscherben Flag

It is vertically divided red-white with centred coat of arms (spotted in the French twin city of Brunstatt-Didenheim).
Source: email from Olivier Touzeau on 17 Oct 2020
Olivier Touzeau, 19 Oct 2020

Dinkelscherben Coat of Arms

Shield parted per pale of Gules and Argent, over all a plant pot Vert, issuant from pot three barley ears Or.
Meaning:
The arms are canting, displaying a plant pot (Swabian: Blumenscherben), filled with barley ears, to be precise the variety of spelt (German: Dinkel / Latin: Triticum spelta). The arms remained basically the same since the 16th century. The tinctures are those of the Bishopric of Augsburg, to which the village belonged since 1333, later since 1430 to the Chapter of Augsburg. Literature says that the arms were granted in 1557, but in fact the arms are based on an earlier privilege from 1540. Since 1837 the pattern is also used in seals.
Source: Stadler 1965, p.40
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2020

The arms were granted on 23 June 1540 by German King Ferdinand I and confirmed in 1836 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2020

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