Ruggell (Liechtenstein)

Ruggell

Last modified: 2012-04-06 by antónio martins
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• Description of the flags
  • Vertical flag, simple stripes
  • Vertical flag, stripes and arms
• Banner of the arms
• Horizontally striped design

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Description of the flags

• Flag description: three stripes, blue-yellow-red (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73].)
• Flags actually used:
  • vertical flag, simple stripes
  • square flag, banner-of-arms
  • vertical flag, stripes with banner-of-arms in the head

Banner of the arms

image by Marcus Schmöger, 17 Sep 2009

• Arms description (German):
  • Ein Schild mit rotem Grund, im Schildfuss blaues silberbordiertes Flussband, darüber eine aufrechte goldene Ähre mit zwei Blättern (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85].)
  • In Rot aus einem erniedrigten, beiderseits mit silbernem Faden begrenzten, blauen Querfluss eine goldene Kornähre mit zwei Blättern wachsend (Sources: [jsu73].)
• Arms blazoning (English): Gules, a two-leafed corn ear Or issuant from a bar abased wavy Azure fimbriated Argent.
• Arms granted: by Francis Joseph II, the reigning prince, in August 1956 (Kranz [kra82d] says August 16th while Jäger-Sunstenau [jsu73] says August 5th)
• Reasons for the arms: the ear for the agricultural victory over the Rhine, that is symbolized by the bar wavy; the colours blue and red are the national ones (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73])

Square flag, banner-of-arms. Source for this flag design: Liechtenstein 1978-1988 — Bilder, Texte und Dokumente. Verlag der Fürstlichen Regierung, Vaduz 1988: p. 274; and these two photos.
Marcus Schmöger, 17 Sep 2009

Horizontally striped design

(Fanciful design!)

image by António Martins, 15 Mar 2012

There is an image of the letter-of-arms showing a drawing of the flag, this being a rather ancient-looking staff with a long horizontal flag with a ratio of about 1:3 (stripes from top to bottom blue-yellow-red). This is merely a nice drawing and certainly never used like that.
Marcus Schmöger, 17 Sep 2009

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