Erdweg Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Erdweg, Landkreis Dachau, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-11-21 by klaus-michael schneider
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5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Nov 2020

5:2 image by Jörg Majewski and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Nov 2020

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Erdweg Municipality

Erdweg Banner

It is a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband. The seal (see left image above) or the coat of arms (see right image above)is shifted to the top.
Sources: this photo and this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Nov 2020

Erdweg Coat of Arms

Baroque shield Azure, the eastern façade of a Romanic church Argent with roofs Or, in base a fess dancetty Or.
Meaning:
The church is a representation of the local basilica on the Petersberg, a mountain, the most important local architectural monument. The mountain had been the home of a Benedictine convent from 1100 to 1122. The fess dancetty is the oldest heraldic symbol of the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach and was included into the arms of the convent. Scheyern Abbey and the Wittelsbach kin had been important local manorial lords.
The seal displays the arms and has a black circumscription with separators as follows: "Bayern" (above) and "Gemeinde Erdweg" (beneath).
Source: "Oberbayerisches Archiv" vol. 81/82 (1957), pp.142 -143
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Nov 2020

Banner (with seal) and arms were approved on on 27 July 1973 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Oberbayern. The banner with arms is just in use.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Nov 2020

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