Biburg Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Biburg, Landkreis Kelheim, Bayern

Last modified: 2022-04-02 by klaus-michael schneider
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Biburg Municipality

Biburg Banner

It is a banner lozengy of white and blue. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top in a circular shield fimbriated golden with a black circumscription "Gemeinde" (above) and "Biburg" (beneath).
Source: this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2022

Biburg Coat of Arms

Shield Gules a church Argent with two towers and roofs Azure, in dexter chief an inescutcheon parted per fess of Argent and Azure and charged with three heraldic roses seeded Or ordered 2:1 in counterchanged tinctures.
Meaning:
The arms display the local Romanic basilica, the local landmark. The inescutcheon displays the apocryphal arms of the Counts of Sittling, founders and reeves of the Benedictine Biburg Abbey, originally a double abbey, having a monastery and a nunnery. The arms were designed by Otto Hupp.
Source: Klemens Stadler: "Die Wappen der niederbayerischen Landkreise und Gemeinden", Landshut 1960, pp.42,78 -79
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2022

The banner has never been approved officially. The arms were approved on 3 January 1933 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Mar 2022

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