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Haag in Oberbayern Market Town (Germany)

Markt Haag in Oberbayern, Landkreis Mühldorf am Inn, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-10-17 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Haag town banner] 5:2 image by M. Schmöger, 28 Jan 2002
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Haag in Oberbayern Market Town

Haag Banner

It is a red-white vertical bicolour with the arms in a white bannerhead at the top.
Source: this online catalogue
M. Schmöger, 28 Jan 2002

Haag Coat of Arms

Shield Gules, a horse forcene Argent bridled of the same.
Meaning:
The market town uses old arms, dating back to a municipal seal from 1390. >. The horse forcene had been the heraldic animal of the local rulers between 1200 and 1245/46, the Gurren of Haag kin - "Gurre" is an ancient word for an old mare - and later of their successors the lords and since 1509 Imperial Counts of Fraunberg, which gained the privilege of direct imperial rule for their territory in 1436, which then became an imperial county (German: Reichsgrafschaft). A local seal from 1457 displays the mare in a triangular shield. The imperial county was acquired by the Dukes of Bayern in 1566, when the Fraunberg kin had become extinct. King Ludwig the Bavarian had granted the rights of a market town to Haag in 1324. The seals didn't change essentially since the middle of the 15th century. The existence of arms is known since the 18th century.
Sources: Stadler 1965, p.66 and own observation of M. Schmöger
M. Schmöger, 28 Jan 2002 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Oct 2020

The arms are in use since the 15th century.
M. Schmöger, 28 Jan 2002

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