Kleinaitingen Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Kleinaitingen, Landkreis Augsburg, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-10-31 by klaus-michael schneider
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Kleinaitingen Municipality

Kleinaitingen Banner

It is a yellow-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is in a white bannerhead.
Source: M. Schmöger's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2020

Kleinaitingen Coat of Arms

Shield Gules an orb Or.
Meaning:
The orb in a shield was first displayed in a local seal from 1800. Bishop Clemens Wenzelslaus of Augsburg (1739 - 1812) invited all municipalities alongside the Hochstraße (English: Highway), to mark their properties, among those boundary stones and boundary-posts, fences and public equipment, by local symbols. Kleinaitingen and the neighbouring Großaitingen chose as their symbols the orb from the arms of Schwabmünchen. The heraldic authority suggested a different pattern as follows: in a blue shield a chevron parted (per pale) of Or and Argent and a golden orb under the chevron. The Minister of Interior ordered however, to use the old symbol without changes. A seal from 1903 displayed a white orb in a blue shield in Petra Sancta code. The current tinctures are alluding to the Bishopric of Augsburg.
Source: Klemens Stadler and Friedrich Zollhoefer: "Wappen der schwäbischen Gemeinden", Kempten 1952, pp. 73, 173
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2020

The arms were granted on 29 September 1837 by King Ludwig I of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2020

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