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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Burgau city banner w/ CoA]](../images/d/de-gn-bg_.gif) 5:2  image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
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![[Burgau city banner wo/ CoA]](../images/d/de-gn-bg0_.gif) 5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
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It is a red-white vertical bicolour with coat of arms shifted towards the top (see left image above) or without arms (see right image above).
Sources:
1) this online catalogue
2) this photo
3) this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
Shield Azure on base Vert an embattled tower Argent with port and windows Sable and portcullis Or, flanked by two firs Vert.
Meaning:
Seal prints are known since 1392. They displayed a tower without port and windows with cone roof between two firs, a canting ensemble for "castle in the meadow" (German: Burg in der Au). As Burgau had been capital of the namesake margraviate under Austrian rule, the tower was superimposed by a red inescutcheon parted by a white fess, the arms of Austria. The shape of the tower changed, the inescutcheon remained, was however abolished, as the city became a part of Bayern in 1805. The current pattern was fixed in 1813 with an additional crown of grain ears as crest.
Source: Stadler 1965, p.34
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
The banner is used without approval. The arms were granted on 23 June 1813 by King Max I Joseph of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
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