Cross potent

A Kruck Cross ( or crutch cross or hammer cross) is a common cross with cross beams, the " crutches ", at the four corners ( four times Taukreuz ).

Is the Kruck cross in the Schrage position (like the St. Andrew's Cross ), it is a Kruck saltire. In heraldry, a division or cleavage of this form will be referred to as a crutch crest section.

Use

The Kruck cross is a basic graphical symbol. The oldest evidence can be found in the early Stone Age rock carvings in, such as cross cut tipped with a bow as anthropomorphic figure in La Coruna, northern Spain, dated to about 2500 BC, then in China, in ancient times and in Latin American cultures. It is next to it also associated with general sun symbols.

Hammer cross also refers to strong geendte forms of Germanic discoveries, which also carried out similar to a cross paws. Kruck Cross describes the form of a crutch.

An early example is the Christian Emperor Henry Cross, a Roman altar and processional cross (now Fritzlarer Cathedral Museum of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter )

Use in Austria since 1925

His first official launch dates back to Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, who Kruck cross shape selected for the Great Medal of the First Republic Austria. From 1925 it was coined at his instigation and on the back of the Austrian 2 Groschen 1931 and the 5- pence coins.

1934-1938, the Republic was replaced by the Austro-fascist corporate state. Domestically, he led the Kruck Cross flag of the Fatherland Front as the national flag set equal emblem, and an openwork red Kruck cross was next to the Quaternionenadler a kind of coat of arms of Austria.

Other uses of the Cross Kruck

Character encoding

For Kruck cross is a Unicode glyph available, namely ☩ U 2629 (9769) CROSS OF JERUSALEM ( as " Jerusalem Cross" may refer to: In the English room, the two names are sometimes equated ) in the Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block.