Fess

In heraldry, a bar is a herald image, which is formed by two dividing lines in the field. The Knights road is horizontal, the oblique beams obliquely, always of heraldic right ( front) top to bottom left - bottom right to top left is called oblique bar links and is considered largely independent image.

The bar should not be confused with the stake which is perpendicular. In the Anglo- French heraldry of the belt-like bars (English fess, French fasce, cf, Bondage, Fasche ') and the sash -like oblique bar (bend, bande ) conceptually rigorous separately.

• 2.1 The binding of Austria: Silver on Red
• 2.2 Geschachte bar 2.2.1 Cistercian bar: Double row of silver and red geschacht
• 2.2.2 Maerkischer chess bars: Three rows of red and silver geschacht

Blason and Tincture

The bar ( Knight Street )

Execution can, just like the coat of arms, all colors, shapes and figures record the average space must, however, always a different color ( tincture ) than the upper and lower. Here, the upper and lower partition, if not the same cut also be mentioned.

He can rimmed ( provided with board ), pieced, flamed and also for all crest sections separated from the whole plate. The aim is the same side sectional figure. Herold images and vulgar figures are available in the bar.

If it is not arranged centrally, that is slightly shifted upward, it emblazoned as increased or decreased as if the other (as described ). The bar can also be represented multiple times in the arms, but then a narrower shape is selected.

The oblique beams

A diagonal beams, also oblique right beams, cross beams, cross brace, crest sash, arises when a plate of two parallel -running, oblique lines is divided into three courses, one of which must have two equal tinctures. Here, the oblique beam must run diagonally to the right (of heraldic right ( front) - top to rear ( heraldic left ) below).

The oblique bar links

The oblique bar links created as the oblique beams, but it is skewed to the left (of heraldic left ( back) Up to the front ( heraldic right) below). In older crest descriptions can be found Schreffe for these oblique beams of the term.

Several bars and division

Several bars either as such or split ( divided diagonally, diagonally left divided, english barry / bendy / bendy sinister, French FASCE / Bandé / taillé ) described, depending on whether an even or odd number of fields is created. It should be noted that is counted differently in German than in English - French Heraldry: any color Two fields called German divided three times ( three dividing lines ), English but barry / bendy of four ( erstgenannt is then the top color, diagonally right at all divisions so that the heraldic left top corner), while two of the one and the other three German color two beams, Eng. two fesses / bends are emblazoned on the other color ( therefore there is no " barry / bendy of 5", and not " 6-way split "). Divided one emblazoned even if above and below various colors, so about: red, a silver beam (red- white-red ) but red, silver and blue split ( red-white- blue, " three times " is then unnecessary, English tierced per fess, divided into thirds from the beam '). If the number of divisions indeterminate ( because there are many, or the number is irrelevant), it is called bar as red-gold (red starts, english barry - without additives).

5-way split of silver and red ( barry of 6)

Silver, red 3 bars (3 fesses )

7-way split of silver and red ( barry of 8)

Twin beams and thread / strip / insert

If the width of the beam, only less than half ( about 2/7 to 1/3 blade width ), it is referred to as thread, strip or plug (English bendlet ).

When two beams are parallel and the sum of the two bar widths including the distance among each other have a normal bar width, they are emblazoned with twin beams.

In French heraldry, the width was reduced to thread width, and comes with twin stripes (bars Gemelles ) or Doppelbändel ( barrulet ) refers. With three threads are triple stripes.

If the beam on either side accompanied by a thin bar, his name is accompanied by two bars, they border on, his name is rimmed, one is on, it means the bar with a bar occupied. This is possible also with other numbers of strips. The guided ligand strips usually have the same color, otherwise it will be noted, the others are inevitably tinged different.

Three times two Doppelbändel

Accompanied by two strips

Accompanied by two double bars

Other forms

From a shifted or offset bar is to be read in Crest descriptions when the front (right ) and rear (left ) is part of the beam separated by a straight or oblique cut and offset by the width up or down ( moved). This image is called Herold edge beams and is distinguished by the higher -lying part in right or left edge beams. Is shifted only by half the beam width, there is a solid edge beams, which will be described after the increased side. In a fraction line is missing in the middle of a piece or several pieces.

In conjunction with a right or left gerückten to the plate edge pile the same beam width and the same bar color it becomes a right or left flank bars or side bars. A hyphen must not stand between the two.

Another form is the paws bar. In this, the two ends widen.

If the bar on both sides so completely tipped that it disintegrates, called fusilly him pound bar or awakening bar (English, French fuselée; may the diamonds or wake but not be cut, emblazoned one oblique beams as abutting end or touching diamonds, French fusée ).

Zigzag beam ( Schwenningen )

Right edge beams in the small plate ( Zandt )

Awaken beam ( Seigneurs de Monceaux )

Tincture, average occupancy and of the beams

Like all Herold images can be freely tinged the beams of about split from ... and shared by ... ( bearing in mind that the beam along its direction divided in two colors, the oblique beams but then is split, and the other way around ) monochrome, the two mixed as quartered, even diagonally quartered on the diagonal, split several times / divided ( about five times shared by red and gold, five dividing lines: three red, three gold fields), to geschacht.

Beams can with all occupied possible, and be arbitrarily cut at the edge.

Placed oblique bars in the wave section with three fish according to the figure

Special bar

The binding of Austria: Silver on Red

Only when osterreichischen shield is called binding for the bar. The name binding goes on the - historically probably not durable - Akkonlegende back, after the Babenbergerherzogs Leopold robe after the battle in front of the castle is on the cigar band was not red with blood.

Geschachte bar

Cistercian bar: Double row of silver and red geschacht

In municipalities of the districts of Ravensburg, Sigmaringen and in other communities of geschachte oblique bar in the coat of arms can be found as a fixed area-based term Cistercian bar crest in many descriptions. Derived from the coat of arms of the Cistercian Order, the name by St. Bernard of Clairvaux is also called Berhardswappen. He is to show the relationship to the monastery of the Cistercian. Apply to all such beams This designation is not permitted.

Maerkischer chess bars: Three rows of red and silver geschacht

The Brandenburg chess bars, sometimes popularly referred to as checkerboard bar was on golden ground out the coat of arms of the Counts of the Mark in Westphalia. To date, the geschachte bar found in numerous arms of the eastern Ruhr region and the Hellweg region and the western Sauerland. Chess beam was originally accompanied by a growing lions, but this vanished from the mid-13th century. The geschachte bar appears for the first time at the beginning of the 13th century in the coat of arms of the Counts of Altena and Mark. Due to the pronounced marriage policy of the counts and dukes later we find the chess beams in many coat of arms related families and regions of Germany. The last Count of the Mark - by inheritance 1609/66 were the Prussian kings and German emperors who continued the geschachten bar in the large coat of arms of Prussia. Also there is the coat of arms on numerous secondary lines - such as marital wedlock - and in-laws families in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy. In modern coat of arms is found occasionally a variant of the Mark geschachten beam, in which the silver and gold will be replaced.

Battlements bar

A bar with patch squares in the same long distance ( battlements ) emblazoned as pinnacles bar. Where they exist also in the same position at the bottom, there is a counter bar battlements, they are added, a change battlements beam as in the old coat of arms of the Counts of Berg. Instead of square battlements can flat ( half height, double length ), Cross ( flat parapet with cross), wide ( dovetailed ), graft ( patch panel), yoke ( cut glass), Spitz (installed triangle) Welsch ( cut-out triangle), Roch battlements ( patch, outwardly curved horns ) are. The Welsch battlement battlement is also called notch, dovetail pinnacle, Scaliger or Ghibellinenzinne.

Beams with Mäandersaum

In French Heraldry bars are often lined on both sides with a meander or equal brought directly designed into the coat of arms. In the coat of arms, it is always a rigid linear form and is not wound as the meanders in rivers. There is a thread- thin gap in between plate color bar and Mäandersaum. The color of the Mäandersaums is often determined by the beam, the actual meander through the translucent plate color. The Mäandersaum itself may also deviate from the bar color and appear, for example, in gold or silver. The plate color shows through the free areas. This border design is to report to the blazon, as in the coat of arms of Buxeuil ( Aube ): " In red a silver oblique beams, both sides lined with just such a meander. " Or in the arms of Haute -Marne with differing tingiertem Mäandersaum: "In blue with a silver pile with double-sided golden Mäandersaum. " in addition to the bar, these ornaments found in oblique beams, in piles, in Borden, at the sign foot and head of the shield. The Mäandersaum has no meaning, but is as an ornament only a heraldic mood.