Zürich armorial

The Zurich Wappenrolle was made ​​around 1335/1345 by an unknown chronicler as heraldic directory in the form of a long scroll of parchment.

Genesis

Even if the client and origin are not secured, St. Gallen, Konstanz or Ragaz be suspected as potential sites of origin. The Zurich naturalist and historian Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was the first known owner of the coat of arms role. His nephew, the Schaffhausen bailiff John Schleuchzer, she bequeathed to the year 1750, Burger library ( public library ) in Zurich. The Herald Heinrich Runge participated in 1860 at the facsimile publication by the Antiquarian Society of Zurich.

Content

The Zurich Wappenrolle is considered the most important and is probably the oldest surviving collection of the coat of arms high and lower nobility of the Middle Ages. The coat of arms shown mostly come from the German-speaking Switzerland, from the vicinity of Lake Constance, from Alsace and Baden. Under the coat of arms shown are the lines of the Tübingen Palatine, dioceses and noble families, as well as municipal coat of arms is still in use today in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Of the once four strips of parchment sewn together by 12.5 centimeters high and has a total of about four meters in length have remained three with 559 coats of arms and banners of 28 dioceses receive. The 108 original coat of arms of the lost strip are preserved in copies.

Whereabouts

Today, the Zurich Wappenrolle can be seen on loan from the Antiquarian Society at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. Copies of the coat of arms role are in the Counts Königsegg'schen Domanial law firm in Aulendorf and one from the painter Hans Conrad Bernhauser (1698-1761) prepared in the style of the 14th century replica in the Central Library Zurich. Both copies contain the lost part of the original role with another 108 coats of arms.