OK now that I’m back from my visit to Geneva, Neuchatel and Chambery I have to say a word in praise of Swiss heraldry! As an American i think I fell into the trap of thinking that heraldry was most prolific and most excellently displayed in Great Britain.
WRONG!
Everywhere you look in Switzerland, on buildings, on license plates, in windows, on printed matter, fluttering from flagpoles you can see national, cantonal and civic arms. The Swiss are mad about heraldry and I’m quickly becoming mad about Swiss heraldry.
Fr. Guy,
Welcome back to the US. Was this your first trip to Europe (not counting the Vatican)? If you get to Germany you’ll see quite a display of heraldry—but perhaps Germany doesn’t use it as much as Switzerland.
Do you have a few favorite snaps to share with us?
—Guy
Sounds like fun! :D Please tell me you took a camera?
Take care,
Another of us was also on this trip and did bring camera.
I have posted some photographs in the HSS gallery.
http://heraldry-scotland.com/copgal/thumbnails.php?album=64
I hope this link works.
Regards,
/Charles
An additional photograph of some members of the Savoy family in the church robes of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, inside of the Abby of Altacomba which houses the crypt of the House of Savoy on 18 March 2007:
http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=famigliarealeegrancancewc6.jpg
gselvester;42636 wrote:
OK now that I’m back from my visit to Geneva, Neuchatel and Chambery I have to say a word in praise of Swiss heraldry! As an American i think I fell into the trap of thinking that heraldry was most prolific and most excellently displayed in Great Britain.
WRONG!
Everywhere you look in Switzerland, on buildings, on license plates, in windows, on printed matter, fluttering from flagpoles you can see national, cantonal and civic arms. The Swiss are mad about heraldry and I’m quickly becoming mad about Swiss heraldry.
I had the same impression about Italy when I was there last fall. Heraldry everywhere - government, personal, historic, commercial.
Guy Power;42647 wrote:
Fr. Guy,
Welcome back to the US. Was this your first trip to Europe (not counting the Vatican)? If you get to Germany you’ll see quite a display of heraldry—but perhaps Germany doesn’t use it as much as Switzerland.
Do you have a few favorite snaps to share with us?
—Guy
As for (Southern) Germany, here I have a humble gallery of heraldic pix of my own:
http://www.ursiversum.eu/Test/album/Freiburg_im_Breisgau/album/index.html
I hope you’ll enjoy it…..
Wow, everybody!
I loved all the pictures.
I’m planning a trip to Europe this fall, and I’m getting more and more excited.
JRB
....aaaaaaaand here we have a small gallery on heraldry (and some architecture, too) in the Northern German Hanseatic City of Lübeck:
http://www.ursiversum.eu/Test/album/Luebeck/album/index.html
Enjoy…..
Here are some photos from my trip (apologies for the poor quality).
http://s2.excoboard.com/forums/3205/user/85362/380673.jpg
http://s2.excoboard.com/forums/3205/user/85362/380675.jpg
Thanks, everyone, for the pictures! It’s great to see "living" heraldry from around the world! :D
Take care,
Thanks, Fr. Guy and Jochen! The stained glass is particularly fabulous!
Here some more pictures I took last fall in Alsace (particularly Strasbourg):
http://www.ursiversum.eu/Test/album/Strasbourg/album/index.html
And here we have some views of St.Jacobi church in Hamburg - most of them heraldic ones:
http://www.ursiversum.eu/Test/album/St_Jacobi_Hamburg/album/index.html
The heraldic panels are located in the "Herrensaal" (= "The Masters’ Hall", the second-oldest non-clerical room in Hamburg and her territories) where the coats-of-arms of clergymen of St.Jacobi since the XVIth century are displayed.
You’ll find more information on St.Jacobi at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jacobi,_Hamburg
