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State : [[Oberösterreich]]<br> | State : [[Oberösterreich]]<br> | ||
District : Vöcklabruck | District : Vöcklabruck | ||
[[File:pfaffing-oo.jpg|center]] | [[File:pfaffing-oo.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | |||
Unter schwarzem Schildhaupt, darin drei silberne Würfel nebeneinander, von denen jeder oben ein schwarzes Auge, rechts zwei und links vier schwarze Augen zeigt, in silber ein rotes, auf seinen Hinterläufen sitzendes Eichhörnchen, das einen grunen Tannenzapfen mit den Vorderpfoten vor sich hält. | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms were officially granted on June 23, 1975. | |||
The dice refer to a bloody event on the 15th of May 1625. At that day Duke Maximilian of Bayern, as stadtholder of Oberösterreich, held a court in which 36 people from the region, who were involved in an uproar, were condemned to death, but half could be spared by gambling with dice in pairs. The losers were executed, the winners freed. | |||
The squirrel in the lower half is taken from the arms of the Vorster family, an important local family. Originally forest rangers (Förster) in the Frankenberg estate, they became one of the most influential noble families in the area in the 16th century. | |||
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Austria|Literature]] : Baumert, H.E. : Oberösterreichische Gemeindewappen, Linz, 1996. | |||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:Austrian Municipalities P]] | [[Category:Austrian Municipalities P]] | ||
[[Category:Oberösterreich]] | [[Category:Oberösterreich]] | ||
[[Category:Vöcklabruck]] | [[Category:Vöcklabruck]] | ||
[[Category:Granted ]] | [[Category:Granted 1975]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:42, 27 September 2023
PFAFFING (OBERÖSTERREICH)
State : Oberösterreich
District : Vöcklabruck
Official blazon
Unter schwarzem Schildhaupt, darin drei silberne Würfel nebeneinander, von denen jeder oben ein schwarzes Auge, rechts zwei und links vier schwarze Augen zeigt, in silber ein rotes, auf seinen Hinterläufen sitzendes Eichhörnchen, das einen grunen Tannenzapfen mit den Vorderpfoten vor sich hält.
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on June 23, 1975.
The dice refer to a bloody event on the 15th of May 1625. At that day Duke Maximilian of Bayern, as stadtholder of Oberösterreich, held a court in which 36 people from the region, who were involved in an uproar, were condemned to death, but half could be spared by gambling with dice in pairs. The losers were executed, the winners freed.
The squirrel in the lower half is taken from the arms of the Vorster family, an important local family. Originally forest rangers (Förster) in the Frankenberg estate, they became one of the most influential noble families in the area in the 16th century.
Literature : Baumert, H.E. : Oberösterreichische Gemeindewappen, Linz, 1996.
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