Ordinary (heraldry)

Herold image, also called Herold figure, Honorary piece and Herald piece is in heraldry a term for a design of an escutcheon, which is based on simple geometric structures.

Difference herald image and common figure

The Herold image provides a contrast to the commoners figure represents, in living organisms ( such as the heraldic animal ), objects, buildings, landscape elements, astronomical objects, or other visually perceptible phenomena of the real world are used to coat of arms design. Common characters can be theoretically shown in " natural color ", even if this should be avoided. Common figures differ in the rule of Herold images in that their color surfaces do not touch the plate edge. This criterion can help in difficult borderline cases to distinguish. For example, the heraldic motif of the Cross: A cross whose arms touch the plate boundary, is considered herald image. If the arms do not reach up to the plate edge, so the cross is entirely within the shield, there is a congregation figure.

Dividing lines / division forms

Places and foursquare

Many coats of arms can be traced back to a few elements. Typical of this is that the blazon referred to by one or more dividing lines in different color spaces, squares, is split. The lines are usually from plate edge to plate edge, the color areas of the park are also limited by the plate edge. In the simplest Coat of dividing lines lie on the basic square lines. The colors used in this case and metals ( " tinctures " ) strictly follow the heraldic colors of rules, that is, only the colors black, blue, green and red, it will be used and the metals gold ( yellow) and silver ( white). As far as geometrically possible only touch paint and metal. Such a holding in red and green blazon would unheraldisch. Using three different tinctures, make possible a separation of the two colors, the use of two metals is rare.

Place names a Coat of Arms

1 = right main piece / Canton right / right Obereck 2 = middle piece main / main / Place 3 = left main piece / Canton left / left Obereck 4 = right flank location 5 = heart spot 6 = left flank location 7 = right spot / right Untereck 8 = point / foot / heel point 9 = left point / left Untereck

1, 4, 7 = right pile / right flank 2, 5, 8 = pole / stake body / navel point 3, 6, 9 = left pile / left flank 1, 2, 3 = shield main Bar / bar area 4, 5, 6 = (transverse) 7, 8, 9 = sign foot

In older descriptions of the shield is called in five rows with main sequence, Honor series, medium series, navel series and Foot Series. For the middle row there are synonyms: Belt Series, Vol row or sign road.

Detailed address the points in the shield, Eng. manner

Division and schism, Ständerung

For the design of the division lines, there are different possibilities.

Without image:

  • Once divided and split twice ( shingled and narrow geschacht )
  • -curved and bent- tip
  • Sign foot and head of the shield (narrow fields below resp. Above)
  • Right and left flank ( a stake, pushed to the edge )
  • Division by a cross

The divisions can be varied so divided about decreased ( up more than half the plate, then resembles a sign foot, but has a different meaning).

All dividing lines may have special contours. For further information see coat of arms cut and cover.

Other basic elements

Other basic elements of a coat of arms to break down in the required fields are those of the rafters, the board and the nettle leaf. A wide rim called the Herald board. Here belongs also the nettle leaf to it. Both are parallel to the plate edge. The board runs at a distance from plate edge and can have different line shapes. On the board also common figures are possible.

The shingles, diamonds and awakening and the chess -sharing are an essential part of heraldry. When created by the intersection of straight lines color change is called gerau off or at geschachten shields. Here, too, belong to the smaller diamonds. Then you called awakening. Are supplemented Herold images by edge, the grille, the gin and the stage. The cross is represented here only with a representation of the form of the two options as a herald image. The other form is a congregation figure.

From the combination of intersecting straight lines, the cross or the drawbar arise. However, the dividing lines do not have to be straight. You may also be curved, wavy or jagged, which significantly expands the design possibilities. This type is attributed to the crest section. The coat of arms cuts as a shield sharing possibility is the most extensive. In addition, there are waves, cleaved with battlements, grouper ( zig- zag line with points ), or at a snail's cut. Herold images of all types are possible in the upper crest on common characters and their designs are carried out as in the shield.

Examples

Very easy Herold images can be found, for example, often in the arms of the Swiss cantons (Canton Lucerne, Canton of Zurich, etc.). Known crest with Herold images in Germany are the Franconian rake and the Bavarian coat of arms of the Wittelsbach diamond.

Canton train: in white plate, a blue bar

Canton of Solothurn: shared by red and white

Canton Ticino: from red and blue split ( heraldic not entirely rule compliant, as two colors against each other! )

Margraviate of Baden: in a golden shield diagonally right, red bar

Aistersheim / Upper Austria: shared by white and black and split twice

Of quartered white and blue: Empty, District of Horstmar

Franconian rake: divided into red and white by three peaks

Small coat of arms of the Free State of Bavaria: riveted by white and blue right diagonal

The blue Landsberger piles are available for the former Margraviate of Landsberg in today's Saxony

Rear confess changes in red silver ( Ständerung in the arms of Oberdürenbach )

Upper crossing in the arms of herb home (Jagst )

Sign board in the arms of Küllstedt

Republic of Croatia: geschacht of red and white

Three zigzag bar in the arms of the Italian family Tocco

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