Herentals

HERENTALS Country: Belgium Province: Antwerpen Additions: 1977 Morkhoven 1977 Noorderwijk Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":51.17580000000000239879227592609822750091552734375,"lon":4.836999999999999744204615126363933086395263671875,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon

Dutch	(1819) Van rood, beladen met een gouden boom. (1841) Een rood veld met eenen zilveren boom met dry wortels en takken zonder getal, afhangende, ook van zilver. (1989) In keel een uitgerukte boom van zilver.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on October 6, 1819. The colour of the tree was changed on January 9, 1841 and the arms were confirmed on May 9, 1989.

Herentals' coat of arms has always featured a tree. Historians are not in agreement about the origin of the tree, which took various shapes throughout the centuries. A picture of the arms with the historically correct colours (red and white) first appears about 1536. Why in 1819 the arms were granted with a golden tree is not known. This was corrected in 1841.

Image gallery

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  The seal from 1262

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  The arms in the Armorial Gorrevod (1460)

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  The arms in a manuscript from 1558

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  The arms in a 16th century manuscript

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  The arms in a 17th century manuscript

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  The arms in 1650

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  The arms from 1818

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  The arms in the Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums +/- 1930

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  The arms on a police badge (source)

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  The arms of Genk (?) on a Herentals police badge (source)

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  The arms on a municipal cover (1970s)

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  Postal cancellation

Literature: Anonymous: Van evers en heiligen - wapens en vlaggen van de gemeenten in de provincie Antwerpen. Antwerpen, 1998. Information provided by the municipality of Herentals.

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