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Neresheim City (Germany)

Stadt Neresheim, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg

Last modified: 2018-11-29 by klaus-michael schneider
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Neresheim City

Neresheim Banner

It is a yellow-blue vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2018

Neresheim Coat of Arms

Shield verry of Or and Gules, in centre an inescutcheon Azure, over all a saltire bastonny Argent.
Meaning:
Neresheim became a city in the 14th century. It had been a dominion of the namesake Benedictine Abbey, afterwards of the Counts, later Princes of Oettingen(-Wallenstein), who had been reeves of the abbey before. A proper seal is first mentioned in 1581, prints are known since 1665. It already displayed the Oettingen family arms, i.e. vair, inescutcheon and saltire, topped by a crozier and afterwards by a Prince's coronet since 1771, when the Oettingen kin gained complete control. Neresheim became a dominion of Württemberg in 1810. Since 1848 the seals displayed the arms of Württemberg. The current pattern was fixed in 1968.
Source: Stadler 1971, p.76
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2018

A yellow blue bicolour was first mentioned in 1726.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2018


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