Röttenbach Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Röttenbach, Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bayern

Last modified: 2021-09-18 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: roettenbach(erlangen) | carp | cross(bottony) | lion(blue) |
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• Röttenbach Municipality
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• Röttenbach Coat of Arms

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Röttenbach Municipality

Röttenbach Banner

It is a blue-yellow-red vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2021

Röttenbach Coat of Arms

Shield Azure a carp Or; mantle Argent, at dexter charged with a cross bottony Gules, at sinister with a demi-lion Azure, crowned, armed and tongued Or, superimposed by two bars Gules and issuant from sinister flanch.
Meaning:
Since earliest times Röttenbach had been a possession of the Sewers of Pommersfelden. They built parish church and castle. After the Röttenbach line had died out in1557, the village was inherited by the Pommersfelden line. In 1610 the village was pawned to the Marshals of Pappenheim. The crowned lion with two bars is taken from the arms of the Pommersfelden line of the sewers. The cross is the attribute of St. Maurice, the local patron saint. The carp is alluding to the breeding of fish in Aischgrund Village.
Source: "Der Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt", Hof 1979, pp.163-164
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2021

Banner and arms were approved on 7 May 1980 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Mittelfranken.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2021

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