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23-398: Bad Buchau incorporates the nine villages of Allmannsweiler , Dürnau , Kanzach , Betzenweiler , Moosburg , Alleshausen , Seekirch , Tiefenbach , and Oggelshausen , as well as the outlying farm settlements of Ottobeurer Hof, Bruckhof, and Henauhof. Also part of Bad Buchau is the formerly independent district of Kappel. The official language is German , with day-to-day conversations by

46-399: A green banner. The different tinctures are traditionally associated with particular heavenly bodies, precious stones, virtues, and flowers, although these associations have been mostly disregarded by serious heraldists. Vert is associated with: Historically, a Green Ensign was flown by Irish merchant vessels from the late 17th century. Green flags flown by revolutionary uprisings include

69-581: A symbol of Irish nationalism in the 19th and 20th century. The Empire of Brazil used a yellow rhombus on a green field from 1822, now seen in the flag of Brazil . In the 20th century, a green field was chosen for a number of national flag designs, especially in the Arab and Muslim world because of the symbolism of green in Islam , including the solid green flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977). Vert

92-648: Is a municipality in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany . In 1803, Schussenried Abbey was secularized and its holdings mediatized to the County of Sternberg-Manderscheid . It was re-mediatized in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg . As one of Schussenried Abbey's possessions, Allmannsweiler thus came under the sovereignty of Württemberg and was assigned to Oberamt Saulgau  [ de ] . In 1938,

115-743: Is occasionally found in historical coats of arms (as opposed to the fictional "green knights" of Arthurian romance) from as early as the 13th century, but it remained rare, and indeed actively avoided, well into the 15th century, but becomes more common in the classical heraldry of the 16th and 17th centuries. According to Paweł Dudziński, the chairman of the Heraldic Committee within the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration , early heraldic green used to be bright, obtained from verdigris pigment, which allowed contrast with azure (obtained from dark ultramarine pigment) in arms that contravened

138-517: Is portrayed in heraldic hatching by lines at a 45-degree angle from upper left to lower right, or indicated by the abbreviation v. or vt. when a coat of arms is tricked . Vert is simply the French word for "green". It has been used in English in the sense of a heraldic tincture since the early 16th century. Vert is not used in modern French heraldry. Instead, sinople has been used for green since at least

161-552: Is primarily made up of Baroque farmhouses and half-timber buildings. A notable edifice is the Gothic , 14th century Church of the Holy Cross, the local Roman Catholic parish church. Allmannsweiler has one borough ( Orsteil ): Allmannsweiler. Allmannsweiler's coat of arms depicts a raised, golden cross upon a field of green . The cross is an image of the crucifix in the Church of

184-545: Is the tincture equivalent to green . It is one of the five dark tinctures called colours . Vert is commonly found in modern flags and coat of arms , and to a lesser extent also in the classical heraldry of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period . Green flags were historically carried by Ottokar II of Bohemia in the 13th century. In the modern period, a green ensign was flown by Irish vessels, becoming

207-514: The crancelin of Saxony and the Zirbelnuss of Augsburg . The three lions rampant, verts of the Marquessate of Franchimont are attested in the 16th century. Siebmachers Wappenbuch of 1605 shows a number of green heraldic devices in the coat of arms of cities. For example, the coat of arms of the town of Waldkappel ("forest chapel") as depicting a chapel in a forest on a red field, with

230-506: The Pan-Arab colours . Green is one of the Pan-African colours , and thus is also common among the national flags of African countries. Other countries have used the colour green in their flags to represent the "greenness" of their lands and abundance of their nation. The following contemporary national flags feature a solid-green field: Former national flags with green fields further include

253-673: The rule of tincture . An early example of a green escutcheon was that of the coat of arms of Styria , based on the banner of Ottokar II of Bohemia (r. 1253–1278), described by chronist Ottokar aus der Gaal (c. 1315) as: A curious example occurs in an early armorial of the Burgundian Order of the Knights of the Golden Fleece (Toison d'Or) where the arms of the Lannoy family are recorded as "argent, three lions rampant sinople, etc." Despite

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276-663: The 16th century. Earlier in the medieval period, however, vert was used for green while sinople originally referred to a shade of red before becoming associated with green. In Spanish heraldry, either sinople or verde can be used for green. Verde is also used in Portugal. In both the Spanish and Portuguese languages, verde literally translates as "green". Sinopel is the spelling used in Dutch heraldry. In German heraldry, they use grün , which also translates as "green". The green tincture

299-496: The Holy Cross, and the green field references the agricultural character of the municipality's economy. This coat of arms was awarded along with a municipal flag by the Biberach district office on 23 March 1982. Allmannsweiler is only connected to Germany's network of roadways by its local Kreisstraßen . Local bus lines provide for public transportation. Vert (heraldry) In British heraldry , vert ( / v ɜːr t / )

322-450: The Oberamt was reorganized into Landkreis Saulgau  [ de ] , which was dissolved by the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform  [ de ] . Allmannsweiler was subsequently assigned to a new district, that of Biberach an der Riss . The municipality ( Gemeinde ) of Allmannsweiler covers 410 hectares (1,000 acres) of the district of Biberach an der Riss , making it

345-409: The fact that sinople signified a shade of red in early heraldry, the lions in this 15th century manuscript are clearly green, although rather faded. The fugitive nature of the green pigments of that day may have had some influence on the low use of that colour in early heraldry. During the 16th century, green was still rare as a tincture for the field of a coat of arms, but it was used increasingly for

368-408: The ground on which the chapel is standing, and four trees behind the chapel, drawn in green. There are a number of other examples where Siebmacher as a green "mount" (the heraldic "hill" at the bottom of the shield on which the heraldic charge is "standing"). For the town of Grünberg , Siebmacher shows a yellow field on which a knight is riding, his horse running on a green "hill" and the knight flying

391-549: The heraldic designs shown in the field, especially when depicting trees or other vegetation. Thus, the coat of arms of Hungary shows a "double cross on a hill" as a symbol of the Árpád kings, where the cross was shown in silver ( argent ) and the hill in green, from the late 14th century. The only green shown in the arms of the states of the Holy Roman Empire in the Quaternion Eagle by Hans Burgkmair (c. 1510) are

414-564: The late 12th century. Here, the Chevalier au Vert Escu ("knight with the green shield") often marks a kind of supernatural character outside of normal chivalric society (as is still the case with the English " Green Knight " of c. 1390), perhaps in connection with the Wild Man or Green Man of medieval figurative art. The Anglo-Norman prose Brut (c. 1200) has Brutus of Troy bear a green shield, Brutus Vert-Escu, Brutus Viride Scutum . Green

437-492: The majority of its inhabitants in the Swabian dialect . From the 13th century to the mediatisation of 1803, Buchau had the particularity of being the seat of both an Imperial Abbey and a Free Imperial City , independent of each other. In terms of area, it was one of the smallest such self-ruling cities and its island situation eliminated the necessity to erect city walls and towers. Buchau, however, lost its insular benefits after

460-647: The one used in the Vaudois insurrection against Bernese rule in the 1790s (which became the basis of the modern coat of arms of Vaud ), the flag of the Irish Saint Patrick's Battalion (1846–1848), and the flag of the Easter Rising (1916). In the 20th century, a number of national flags were designed involving green, especially in the Muslim world , based on the traditional symbolism of green in Islam , and as one of

483-479: The second smallest municipality in that district. It is located at the southern edge of the district's area, along the border with the district of Sigmaringen . Allmannsweiler is physically located in the basin of the Federsee . Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of 646 meters (2,119 ft) Normalnull (NN) to a low of 589 meters (1,932 ft) NN. The architecture of Allmannsweiler

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506-575: The water level of Lake Federsee had been lowered on two occasions. The prehistoric settlement at Siedlung Forschner is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The most prominent company is Franz Kessler GmbH, based in Bad Buchau's light industrial area of Kappel. Allmannsweiler Allmannsweiler ( German pronunciation: [ˈalmansˌvaɪlɐ̯] )

529-708: Was left out of some heraldic works in the Middle Ages, but the first known English treatise, the Anglo-Norman "De Heraudie" (dated to sometime between 1230 and 1345), lists vert among the other tinctures. The French term sinople was in use prior to the 15th century, but it did not refer to green, but rather to red, being identical in origin to Cinnabar , originally the name of a red pigment also known as sinopia . Descriptions of knightly shields as painted at least partly green in Arthurian romance are found earlier, even in

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