Frutten-Gießelsdorf

	FRUTTEN-GIESSELSDORF Country : Austria State : Steiermark District : Südoststeiermark (until 2015 Feldbach) Incorporated into: 2015 Sankt Anna am Aigen 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":46.82119999999999748752088635228574275970458984375,"lon":15.932700000000000528643795405514538288116455078125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
German	In Rot golden über einer in Furchenstich durch drei Dreiecke unter Randrillen gezierten kupferzeitlichen Tasse ein neunblättriger, vier Trauben tragender Weinstock in Gestalt eines Lebensbaumes.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on July 8, 1996.

Viniculture has been very important in the region of the municipality since the Middle Ages. So, a vine is growing in the arms above a piece of pre-historic ceramics (Kulttasse) found locally, at Hochstraden.

Literature : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 47 (1997), p. 51