Last modified: 2017-12-05 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Höpfingen municipal banner]](../images/d/de-mh-hp_.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2017
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It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2017
Shield Argent with base Vert, standing on base a bishop with a choir's dress Gules, holding a book sable in his right and a crozier Or in his left hand, behind the bishop a hind statant Sable, having an arrow sable in her breast.
Meaning:
The bishop is St. Giles (in Germany aka Ägidius), the local patron saint. Book and crozier are his attributes. According to a legend the hind nourished him by her milk. The arrow is alluding to a hunting party of the King of the Visigoths, chasing the hind. The pattern appeared on a local court seal from 1777, it was proposed as arms in 1909, amended in 1957.
Source: Landeskundliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg
Banner and arms were approved on 17 May 1966 by Minister of Interior of Baden-Württemberg, published in GABl 502/1966.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2017
![[(Höpfingen) village banner]](../images/d/de-mh-hp-ws_.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2017
It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2017
Shield Gules, standing on a base Or a bearded saint nimbed and coated Or, dressed Azure, holding a book and a palm frond in his hands.
Meaning:
The saint is St. Justin, the local patron saint.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2017
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