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image by Jörg Majewski, 6 Feb 2022
It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2022
Renaissance shield Azure, a saint statant, dressed by a tunica Gules and a dalmatic Argent fringed Or, holding axes Argent hafted Or by his hands.
Meaning:
Meaning:
The saint is St. Vincent, patron of lumbermen, as forestry and agriculture had been the only important business lines in the village. The axes are different, the sinister one (Bavarian: Merschl) has a long haft and the dexter one (German: Griesbeil) a normal haft. Both are important tools of lumbermen. The arms are based on a statue of the saint in the local parish church on a Baroque altar, which probably was a gift of the woodcrafts master Andrä Graßl from 1682.
Source: "Unser Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land", 3rd edition, Bamberg 1996, p103
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2022
Banner and arms were approved on 17 July 1953 and confirmed on 16 October 1953 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Feb 2022
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