Last modified: 2022-05-14 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: lutzingen | wing | crown(royal) | lion(yellow) | blossom |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
![[Lutzingen municipal banner]](../images/d/de-dg-lz_.gif)
5:2
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 May 2022
It is a red-yellow-red vertical triband. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 May 2022
Shield parted per pale, at dexter Or a wing Gules in base and a royal crown Gules in chief, at sinister Gules a lion rampant Or holding three blossoms Argent by his dexter forepaw.
Meaning:
The wing is an attribute of St. Michael, the local patron saint of Lutzingen proper. The royal crown is alluding to the Staufen kin, who owned estates in Lutzingen before 1268. It is also alluding to Abbot Coelestin Königsdorfer, the last abbot of the Holy Cross Monastery in Donauwörth. His brother, the writer Martin Königsdorfer had been reverend in Lutzingen between 1732 and 1735. The sinister half is representing the former municipality of Unterliezheim. The charges are taken from the arms of Coelestin Mayer, who had been provost in Unterliezheim between 1732 and 1735 and afterwards imperial abbot of the Abbey of St. Ulricus and St. Afra in Augsburg until 1753. He built the church in Unterliezheim and financed it from own resources.
Source: "Der Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau. Ehedem und heute". 2nd ed., Dillingen 1982, pp.508-511
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 May 2022
Banner and arms were approved on 23 August 1988 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Schwaben.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 May 2022
back to Dillingen upon Donau cities and municipalities click here