Arms and flags of the communes of Liechstenstein

Last modified: 1997-09-03 by giuseppe bottasini
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• Vaduz
• Balzers
• Triesen
• Triesenberg
• Schaan
• Planken
• Eschen
• Mauren
• Gamprin
• Ruggell
• Schellenberg

The source where I found them is the book:

	 La Principaute de Liechstenstein, Kranz Walter 
	 Une documentation publiee par l'Office de presse et
	 d'information du gouvernement de la Principaute de
	 Liechstenstein.

The arms are divided into four fields, the first and the fourth are silver with a red prince crown, the second and the third are red with a silver ecclesiastical banner with three rings.The silver banner reminds of the count Hartmann III of Wendenberg-Sargans who was given the nowadays Oberland and parts of the Unterland by the treaty of the 3rd of May 1342.This treaty give birth to the county of Vaduz whose links with the empire was confirmed by the king Venceslas in 1396.So were created the territorial and judicial basis of the future state of Liechstenstein.Hartmann, count of Vaduz, was the first seigneur of the country to establish his residence in the castle.The ecclesiastical banner reminds also that the counts of Vaduz were the foundators of the church of Saint Florin. The arms were given to the commune of Vaduz by law of the former reigning Prince on the 26th of July 1978. The flag is red with a little horizontally strip at the top.

The arms are azure with a golden griffon whose tongue, "mouth" and nails are red.This arms are the same than the ones of the Barons of Frauenberg, who owned a castle in Gutenberg at the beginning of the 14 century.

	The arms......Balzers....on the 16th of August 1956.
	The flag is blue, yellow, blue horizontally.

The arms are azure with three silver ? (in french it is called "faux") vertically .These arms have an origin in the arms of the seigneurs of Trisen, the oldest aristocratic family having had his house in Triesen.The first document where this family is mentionned is dated 1273.

	The arms......Triesen.......on the 23rd of June 1956.
	The flag is blue and white vertically stripped.

The arms are azure with a golden bell and in the bottom three gold mounts.The colours remind the "Walser"who came from Davos to settle on the mounts of Triesen (=Triesenberg).The three golden mounts stand for the name of the commune.The bell is the attribute of Saint Theodule, saint patron of the Valais and of the valaisan settlements (Walser), who is mentionned in 1595 as the saint patron of the chapell of Masescha.

	The arms.......Triesenberg.....on the 20th of May 1955
	The flag is blue and yellow horizontally.

Tha arms are divided vertically in two fields separated by a white pal.On the first field appears a golden corn on azure.On the second a silver wave on red.The colours are the colours of the national flag.The corn symbolises agriculture, the wave the Rhine river.

	The arms.....Schaan.....on the 12nd of June 1938.
	The flag is vertically blue, white, red with the fields

The arms are diagonally divided (french "taille") in two fields silver and green.On the white field (!) appears a golden star with six rays.The green field represents the prairy, the star represents the sky.

 	The arms....Planken....on the 7th of March 1943.
	The flag is vertically white and green, on the white field
        appears a yellow star with six rays.

The arms are azure with a silver colomb, with red feets, holding in his "mouth" a red piece of wood.At the bottom appears a silver wave.The silver colomb holding a red piece of wood appears in the arms of the covent of Pfaefers who owned the church in Eschen.

	
        The arms......Eschen....on the 16th of April 1942.
	The flag is blue with a white wave.

The arms are diagonally divided (french:"taille") in two fields black and gold.On the first appear a golden sword and key in form of a saltire.The colours are the ones of the seignory of Schellenberg of which Mauren belonged in the past.The sword and key symbolise the rigth of patronage on the parish.

	The arms....Mauren....on the 8th of February 1958.
	The flag is horizontally black and yellow.

The arms are azure with a golden diagonally wavy strip, a silver and gold rose in each azure field.The golden strip symbolises the place of Gamprin which is located on the Rhine river.The two roses remind of the knights of Limpach who owned land in Bendern and on the Eschnerberg, land which was given by Roger of Limpach to the cathedral of Coire in 1194.

	The arms.....Gamprin....on the 3rd of April 1958.
	The flag is blue, yellow, blue horizontally striped.

The arms are red with a golden corn on a wavy azure strip fimbriated white.The colours are the ones of the national flag.The corn symbolises the victory of the farmers over the wildness of the Rhine river which now flews between damms.

	The arms....Ruggell...on the 16th of August 1956.
	The flag is blue, yellow, red horizontally striped.

The arms are gold with a black fortress wall.At the top appears a black strip.The colours remind the seigneurs of Schellenberg, the fortress wall their castle.

	The arms....Schellenberg...on the 28th of March 1940.
	The flag is black, yellow, black, yellow horizontally striped.