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![[Wiesensteig city banner]](../images/d/de-gp-wi_.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jan 2018
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Shield Gules, issuant from base a quintuplemount Or, issuant from mount a demi-elephant rampant Argent.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jan 2018
It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Meaning:
Wiesensteig had been the seat of the Counts of Helfenstein and was considered to be a city since the middle of the 14th century. Prints of the oldest seal existed since 1482. They displayed an elephant, issuant from a quadruple mount. All the following seals kept this pattern, although the owners of Wiesensteig changed frequently: 1627 condominion of Bavaria and Fürstenberg, 1752 dominion of Bavaria alone, 1806 dominion of Württemberg. Only the shape of the mount changed. Since the 19th century the mount was a quintuplemount, which was fixed in 1930. The current tinctures are based on the earliest coloured image from 1560. The elephant was also used as a local symbol on boundary stones.
Sources: Landeskundliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg and Stadler 1971, p.113
The banner was approved on 4 February 1959 by Minister of Interior of Baden-Württemberg, published in GABl 127/1959. Prior to this the municipality had a green-red banner
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jan 2018
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