I have to add to the one word because this wheel led me down a small rabbit hole. At the harbour of Gernsheim, a town on the Rhine about 40 km south of Mainz, I saw this crest on the side of a monument. The … Continue reading A lesson in heraldry
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The Perfect Response
Lately a lot of the local power distribution boxes have been painted in blue and black, the colours of a football club in the next town. The ultra fans of this club have stuck really ugly and offensive stickers on every possible surface. And now, the power boxes. But for once somebody (the town officials? – I don’t know who) has reacted and painted our town’s crest on the surfaces. A major improvement.
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Too Big to Dust
That’s the crest on top of the huge wine vat in the cellar of the Heidelberg Castle – not the BIG vat, though, but quite big. And it’s dusty. FOWC with Fandango: Dusty
Not a Sore Throat
What a lozenge is in heraldry is a diamond or a rhomb in geometry. This crest is on top of a large vat in the Heidelberg castle – although not THE large vat in the castle but big enough (more than 5m tall, judging by … Continue reading Not a Sore Throat
A Telling Name
A town less than 20km to the south from here and now a part of Heidelberg is called Handschuhsheim, literally translated “home of the glove”. This is its crest as displayed on the old castle Tiefburg in the middle of town: Ragtag Daily Prompt: Glove
Keys in Crests
Keys in heraldry can signify open-mindedness (or, less often, closedness) and is a symbol of the power of Petrus or hence of other high dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church. The crest of the town of Ladenburg, once as a graffiti, once as a relief … Continue reading Keys in Crests
Consider the Lilies
This is the family crest of the Brömser-Heddesdorf in Rüdesheim. Consider the six lilies therein (and the bees, consider the bees!) FOWC with Fandango: Consider
Crowned Heads
So many crowns in Europe, old ones and new ones, ornate ones and minimalist ones, powerful ones and purely decorative ones. The old Palatinate lion holding up the crest and and a crown, a restaurant called Die Krone (The Crown) and even the eagle of … Continue reading Crowned Heads
The Rampant One
is the lion on the coat of arms not the one holding the coat of arms.
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The Power of Three
Three is a powerful number and often three of the same are used in crests and coat of arms. The three lilies are from the coat of arms of the town of Wiesbaden, the capital of the State of Hesse. The three rings are a medieval symbol for a bishop and this crest is displayed a the front of the Kloster Neuburg near Heidelberg.
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