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klaus-michael schneider
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
It is a green-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: §2(2) of local Hauptsatzung, version 16 May 2018
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
Shield Argent a throughout bridge Gules masoned Sable, issuant from both flanches two firs Vert, between them hammer and mallet Sable in saltire superimposed by a fish hook of the same in pale, beneath a rising sun Gules with alternating straight and embowed rays surrounded by a crancelin Vert, in base three waves Sable.
Meaning:
The masoned bridge is taken from the arms of the former municipality of Hammerbrücke, a canting representation of the name giving stone bridge. Crancelin, sun and tools are taken from the arms of the former municipality of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz. Hammer and mallet had also been part of the former arms of Hammerbrücke. The two firs are a differentiation of the arms of the former municipality of Tannenbergsthal, which displayed a green fir on a silver shield. The former municipalities of Gottesberg, Schneckenstein and Jägergrün had no proper arms and are represented by the three waves in base. The waves are also a representation of the name giving Mulde River.
The predecessor of the municipality had been the administrative association (Verwaltungsverband) Waldgebiet Vogtland, to which belonged the municipalities of Hammerbrücke, Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, the seat of the unit, and Tannenbergsthal. The association was transformed to a municipality in 2008. The name was chosen in order to remind on the hammer mills alongside the Mulde River. A municipality incorporated to Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz in 1939 had had the same name before.
Sources: German WIKIPEDIA and §2(1) of local Hauptsatzung, version 16 May 2018
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
Banner and arms were adopted on 13 December 2017 by the local council.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
![[Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz village banner]](../images/d/de-vo-mh-mr_.gif)
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
It was a red-green vertical bicolour. The coat of arms was shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
Shield Argent hammer and mallet Sable in saltire superimposed by a fish hook of the same in pale, beneath a rising sun Gules with alternating straight and embowed rays surrounded by a crancelin Vert.
Meaning:
The arms are canting, the rising sun is a representation of the dawn, or if you prefer aurora (German: Morgenröte), the crancelin (German: Rautenkranz) is representing itself.
Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz is the coldest municipality of Germany. Morgenröthe is the oldest part of the municipality and was mentioned in 1618 as a site of tin mining, later also of metal processing. There had been a smelter and a hammer mill. In the 19th century it was divided into Unter-Morgenröthe and Ober-Morgenröthe, the upper and the lower settlement core.
Rautenkranz was first mentioned in 1679 as a settlement of mining and metal processing. Besides the mine there had been a hammer mill. Name giver of the village had been the crancelin (German: Rautenkranz) on the Saxonian arms.
Morgenröthe and Rautenkranz were united by a merger in 1852. In 1939 Hohehaus, Sackhaus, Muldenhammer and Sachsengrund were incorporated.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2022
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