Last modified: 2021-06-12 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: am ettersberg | berlstedt | buttelstedt | wohlsborn | linden(leaf) | inescutcheon | rooster | bishop | pump well |
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![[Berlstedt village banner]](../images/d/de-ap-ae-br_.gif)
5:2 
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
The municipality has no proper banner.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
The banner was quartered of green and white. The coat of arms was in centre.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
Shield quartered; 1st quarter Or a rooster passant Sable, armed, tongued and combed Gules; 2nd and 3rd quarter parted per saltire of Sable and Argent; 4th quarter Or three linden leaves Vert ordered 2:1.
Meaning:
I have just some speculations. The 1st quarter displays a differentiation of the arms of the Counts of Henneberg. The 4th quarter is probably referring to the former municipalities of Hottelstedt, Ottmannshausen and Stedten.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
Banner and arms were approved on 6 September 1994 and abolished on 31 December 2018.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
![[Buttelstedt village banner]](../images/d/de-ap-ae-bt_.gif)
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
It was a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
Shield Argent, a half-length portrait of a bishop, dressed Or with mitre of the same, holding a crozier of the same by his left hand and a book Gules charged with three bezants in pale by his right hand, in front of him an inescutcheon Azure charged with a lion rampant barry of eight of Argent and Gules.
Meaning:
Hersfeld Abbey owned estates in the area since the 9th century. The Bishopric of Naumburg ruled the area in 1052 but granted its rights to the Landgraves of Thüringen being its vassals. In 1281 Buttelstedt was seat of a district (German: Amt) under the rule of the Wettin kin. Buttelstedt gained the rights of a market town in 1334 and of a city in 1445. The arms are based on a local seal from 1403. The bishop is St. Nicholas, recognisable by mitre and crozier and his usual attribute, the three golden balls, blazoned as bezants on the book. He was the local patron saint of the first church in the city. The inescutcheon displays the arms of the landgraves.
Source: Bensing et alii 1984, p.70
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
Banner and arms were abolished on 31 December 2018.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
![[Wohlsborn village banner]](../images/d/de-ap-ae-wo_.gif)
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
It was a yellow-green-yellow vertical triband. The coat of arms was shifted to the top in the green stripe.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
Coat of Arms:
Shield Or; a pump well Vert on top of a mount of the same, issuant from base and charged with an inescutcheon Argent, parted by a Latin cross Sable; chief Vert charged with five linden leaves Or in fess.
Meaning:
The inescutcheon is referring to the Teutonic Order, as the village belonged to its Commandery of Liebstedt between 1410 and 1525. The well probably is a local monument and canting for a fountain (German: Born).
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
Banner and arms were abolished on 31 December 2018.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2021
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