Last modified: 2021-12-18 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
It is a red-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
Shield parted per bend nebuly of Argent and Gules, in sinister chief a gonfanon Gules fringed Or.
Meaning:
The market town came to being in 1968 by a merger of the former market towns of Weiler and Simmerberg. Weiler gained the rights of a market town in 1789. Without approval the town adopted the family arms of the Lords of Weiler, a shield parted per bend nebuly of Argent and Gules, in the 19th century. Based on the Petra Sancta encoding on town seals the arms displayed the wrong tinctures of golden and blue since 1880. The original tinctures were restored in 1930 and used by the local authorities since 1962. They were known from the Zürich Roll of Arms since 1330/1335.The lords had been commissionaires of the Benedictine St. Gallen Monastery, of the Canonesses from the Lindau Abbey and finally of the Counts of Montfort-Bregenz. The lords owned large own estates and fiefdoms from their liege lords. The kin died out in 1557.
In 1951 the county governor (Kreispräsident) granted the arms of Simmerberg, a shield parted per fess nebuly of Argent and Gules, in chief a gonfanon Gules fringed Or with three annulets Or at its top. A draft had existed since 1940. The arms displayed a differentiation of the family arms of the Lords of Weiler (see above), the additional gonfanon was taken from the arms of the Counts of Montfort-Bregenz, who had the local high level cognisane in Simmerberg till the end of the Medieval. The Lords of Weiler had the low level cognisance until 1553/1570. The new arms are a basically those of Weiler market town plus the gonfanon in sinister chief.
Source: Stadler 1968, pp.66,91
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
Banner and arms were approved on on 13 March 1969 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
![[Ellhofen borough banner]](../images/d/de-li-ws-eh_.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
It was a white-blue vertical bicolour. The coat of arms was shifted towards the top.
Source: this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
Renaissance shield parted abased by a bend sinister nebuly; above right a lion rampant guardant Argent, armed and crowned Or and issuant from the line of partition, in dexter base an inescutcheon Argent parted by a cross Sable, beneath left Gules.
Meaning:
The bend sinister nebuly is a differentiation of the family arms of the Lords of Weiler, former local rulers. Their arms were parted of white and red per bend nebuly. The inescutcheon displays the arms of the Teutonic Order, which ruled the village between 1562 and 1806. The lion and the tinctures blue and white are probably alluding to Bayern, which acquired the village in 1806.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
The banner has never been approved officially. The arms were abolished on 1 January 1972.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Dec 2021
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