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Burgau City (Germany)

Stadt Burgau Landkreis Günzburg, Bayern

Last modified: 2022-07-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Burgau city banner w/ CoA]
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
[Burgau city banner wo/ CoA]
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 July 2022
   


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Burgau City

Burgau Banner

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

Burgau Coat of Arms

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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