Buchdorf Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Buchdorf, Landkreis Donau-Ries, Bayern

Last modified: 2021-05-08 by klaus-michael schneider
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Buchdorf Municipality

Buchdorf Banner

It is a white-green vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 01 May 2021

Buchdorf Coat of Arms

Shield parted by a pale chequered of Gules and Argent, at dexter Argent a beech leaf in pale, at sinister Azure a fish haurient Argent.
Meaning:
The chequered pale is reminding on the Cistercian Kaisheim Abbey, which had been the most important manorial lord. The colours blue and white are those of the Wittelsbach kin. Buchdorf belonged to their Lordship of Pfalz-Neuburg between 1554 and 1618, when it avowed itself to the Protestant confession. The leaf of a beech (German: Buche) is a canting element. The fish is the attribute of St. Ulrich of Augsburg, the local patron saint.
Source: Josef Walter König: Die Wappen der Kommunen im Landkreis Donau-Ries, Donauwörth 2001, pp.46-49
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 01 May 2021

Banner and arms were approved on 18 December 1968 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 01 May 2021

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