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'''Country''': Belgium [[File:Belgium.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''Province''': <br>[[Antwerpen (provincie)|Antwerpen]][[File:antwerp3.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''Additions:''' | |||
* 1977 Morkhoven | |||
* 1977 [[Noorderwijk]] | |||
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|'''Dutch''' | |||
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*(1819) Van rood, beladen met een gouden boom. | *(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. | *(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. | *(1989) In keel een uitgerukte boom van zilver. | ||
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|'''English''' | |||
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===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. | 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. | 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=== | |||
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | |||
| | File:herentalsz1.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The seal from 1262 | ||
File:Herentalsgo.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms in the Armorial Gorrevod (1460) | |||
| | File:Herentals1558.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms in a manuscript from 1558 | ||
File:Herentalsvr.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms in a 16th century manuscript | |||
| | File:Herentals17.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms in a 17th century [https://bm-lille.fr/patrimoine/digital-viewer/c-16435 manuscript] | ||
File:Herentals1650.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms in 1650 | |||
File:herenta2.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms from 1818 | |||
File:herenthals.hagbe.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms in the [[Koffie Hag Belgium|Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums]] +/- 1930 | |||
File:herentals.pol.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms on a police badge ([http://blog.seniorennet.be/police_politie_insignes/ source]) | |||
File:herentals1.pol.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms of [[Genk]] (?) on a Herentals police badge ([http://blog.seniorennet.be/police_politie_insignes/ source]) | |||
File:Herentalsc.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|The arms on a municipal cover (1970s) | |||
File:Herentalsp.jpg|alt=Wapen van Herentals/Arms (crest) of Herentals|Postal cancellation | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Belgium|'''Literature''']]: Anonymous: Van evers en heiligen - wapens en vlaggen van de gemeenten in de provincie Antwerpen. Antwerpen, 1998. Information provided by the municipality of [http://www.herentals.be Herentals]. | |||
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[[Category:Belgian Municipal Arms H]] | [[Category:Belgian Municipal Arms H]] |
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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
The arms in a 17th century manuscript
The arms in the Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums +/- 1930
The arms on a police badge (source)
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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