Schillingsfürst City (Germany)

Stadt Schillingsfürst, Landkreis Ansbach, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-07-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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Schillingsfürst City

Schillingsfürst Banner

It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 July 2020

Schillingsfürst Coat of Arms

Shield parted per fess dancetty with three tips, above Gules a lion passant guardant Argent, beneath Argent a lion passant guardant Sable.
Meaning:
The line of partition together with the tinctures red and white is a Franconian rake. It is alluding to the old name of the municipality Frankenheim-Schillingsfürst. The lions, also called leopard,s display the arms of the Hohenlohe kin. The lion beneath is painted in proper colours, the lion above had different tinctures matching the red background colour. Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst had been a branch line of that kin. Schillingsfürst had been a market town and gained city rights in 1959. The flag colours are those of Hohenlohe.
Source: Stadler 1968, p.58
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 July 2020

The coat of arms was approved on 27 June 1958 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 July 2020

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