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Balzers (LI)

by Jan Oskar Engene 11-APR-1996

based on a description in Walter Kranz (ed.) The Principality of Liechtenstein: A Documentary Handbook, 5th edition, Vaduz, 1981:
"A golden band on a blue background, horizontally so divided that the two blue outer stripes, of equal depth, are separated by a golden middle stripe of the same depth."

Or more simply: blue, yellow, blue horizontally.
Jan Oskar Engene 11-APR-1996

The arms are azure with a golden griffon whose tongue, "mouth" and nails are red. These arms are the same as those of the Barons of Frauenberg, who owned a castle in Gutenberg at the beginning of the 14th century. The arms were adopted on 16 August, 1956.
Pascal Vagnat 21-NOV-1995