Thierrens

	THIERRENS Country : Switzerland Canton : Vaud Incorporated into : 2013 Montanaire 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":46.70320000000000248974174610339105129241943359375,"lon":6.75419999999999998152588887023739516735076904296875,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
French	De gueules au chien arrêté d'or colleté d'argent, à la bordure nébulée d'azur et d'argent.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The Thierrens council decided in 1923 to adopt arms. As no historical seals or arms were known, a contest was launched and 13 projects were entered.

The current arms were the winning design. The dog is taken as a symbol for the nickname of the villagers (the 'chiens', or dogs). The bordure nebuly is taken from the arms of the Lords of Grandson-Belmont, who owned Thierrens until the fourteenth century.

Image gallery

The arms in the Kaffee Hag albums 1914-1960
The arms in the Armorial de Vaud (1972)

Literature : Dessemontet, 1972; Nickame mentioned in Les sobriquets et les armoiries des communes (Arch. Her. Sig. Suisses, 1889)

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