Hoßkirch Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Hoßkirch, Landkreis Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg

Last modified: 2020-06-20 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: hoszkirch | wall(embattled) | key |
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Hoßkirch Municipality

Hoßkirch Municipal Banner

It is a yellow-red vertical bicolour. The arms are shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2020

Hoßkirch Municipal Coat of Arms

Shield Gules, issuant from base an embattled wall Or masoned Sable, in chief an impending key Or in fess.
Meaning:
The embattled wall is alluding to the ephemeral era, in which Hoßkirch had city rights, granted in 1296 by the abbots of Weingarten Abbey and their reeves, the Lords of Fronhofen. The key is the attribute of St. Peter, the local patron saint. Golden and red are the tinctures of the Counts of Königsegg, who had been reeves since 1286 and also manorial lords after 1527.
Source: Landeskundliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2020

Banner and arms were approved on 18 September 1968 by Minister of Interior of Baden-Württemberg, published in GABl 136/1969.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 June 2020

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