Raitenbuch Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Raitenbuch, Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Bayern

Last modified: 2021-09-25 by klaus-michael schneider
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Raitenbuch Municipality

Raitenbuch Banner

It is a green-white-green vertical triband. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Sept 2021

Raitenbuch Coat of Arms

Shield parted per bend, above left Gules a crozier issuant Argent in pale, beneath right Argent a beech leaf Vert in bend.
Meaning:
The area around Raitenbuch had been an Imperial Estate and was acquired by the Bishopric of Eichstätt, represented by the crozier, in 1469. The leaf of a beech (German: Buche) is a canting element. The shades of leaf and banner is light green.
Source: "Unser Bayern", Heimatbeilage der Bayerischen Staatszeitung 1968 ( a newspaper appendix) , p.16
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Sept 2021

Banner and arms were approved on 21 October 1966 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Sept 2021

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