Jengen Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Jengen, Landkreis Ostallgäu, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-09-26 by klaus-michael schneider
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5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Sep 2020

5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Sep 2020

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• Jengen Coat of Arms

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Jengen Municipality

Jengen Banner

It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour (see left image above). Sometimes a coat of arms is shifted to the top (see right image above).
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Sep 2020

Jengen Coat of Arms

Shield parted per pale; at dexter Argent a demi-eagle Sable, armed and tongued Gules and couped per pale, at sinister Gules, a sinister facing griffin-lion rampant Or.
Meaning:
The basic tinctures are those of the Bishopric of Augsburg, to which the area historically belonged.Two monasteries owned large estates in the area, the Hospital of the Franciscan Nuns in Kaufbeuren, represented by the demi-eagle from the arms of the city of Kaufbeuren, and the Steingaden Monastery, represented by the griffin-lion from its proper arms.
Source: Aegidius Kolb and Ewald Kohler (editors): "Ostallgäu, Einst und Jetzt", Marktoberdorf 1984, pp.1126-1130
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Sep 2020

Banner and arms were approved on 28 August 1985 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Schwaben.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Sep 2020

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