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Buch Market Town (Germany)

Markt Buch, Landkreis Neu-Ulm, Bayern

Last modified: 2020-09-05 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Buch town banner] 5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2020
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Buch Market Town

Buch Banner

It is a white-blue vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2020

Buch Coat of Arms

Shield parted per pale, at dexter Azure a tower Argent on base Vert, at sinister Argent a beech Vert on base of the same.
Meaning:
The Fugger kin owned the market town and the local cognisance. Thus the town applied for a coat of arms, displaying the two fleur-de-lis of the family arms of the kin besides a canting beech. In 1838 the current arms were granted without fleur-de-lis but with a tower instead. The tower, being depicted as a ruin, was reminding on the Counts of Marstetten and Neiffen, whose ancestral seat had been on top of a nearby hill.
Source: Stadler 1965, p.32
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2020

The arms were granted on 18 July 1838 by King Ludwig I of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Aug 2020


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