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30-507: Graun may refer to: Graun im Vinschgau (Curon Venosta), a municipality in Italy Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), a German composer Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771), a German composer and violinist A nickname for The Guardian , a UK newspaper, from "Grauniad" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

60-587: A Y in shape (division lines per bend and bend sinister coming down from the chief, meeting at the fess point, and continuing down per pale), is called per pall (also per pairle ). The arms of Pope Benedict XVI is "tierced in mantle" – as described in Vatican information pages, but the usual term in, for example South African heraldry, is chapé ployé (with arched lines, with straight lines: chapé (mantled)), which may be blazoned with three tinctures or just two – e.g. Okakarara Technical Institute: Gules, chapé Azure, on

90-415: A ratio that had hardly moved since the 2001 census. The municipality is served by public bus. Destinations include Mals to the south; and Nauders, Austria; and Martina, Switzerland , to the north. The supernatural drama television series Curon was primarily shot in the town and the surrounding locations. [REDACTED] Media related to Graun im Vinschgau at Wikimedia Commons Division of

120-481: A registered population of 2,447 and an area of 210.5 square kilometres (81.3 sq mi). The municipality contains the subdivisions Langtaufers (Vallelunga), Reschen (Resia), Rojen (Roja) and St. Valentin auf der Haide (San Valentino alla Muta). Adjacent municipalities: Mals , Kaunertal (Austria), Nauders (Austria), Pfunds (Austria), Sölden (Austria), Ramosch (Switzerland), Sent (Switzerland), and Tschlin (Switzerland). The village of Graun borders

150-425: A shield may not always be straight, and there is a system of terminology for describing patterned lines, which is also shared with the heraldic ordinaries. French heraldry takes a different approach in many cases from the one described in this article. Common partitions of the field are: (In the above "left" and "right" are from the viewer's perspective, whereas the heraldic terms "sinister" and "dexter" are from

180-428: Is party per fess , azure on the bottom and argent on the upper part, separated by a thin vert stripe. At the center is shown a gray bell tower, with three windows and an azure point, representing the church bell tower still visible in the lake after the construction of the dam. The emblem was granted in 1967. According to the 2011 census, 97.34% of the population speak German and 2.66% Italian as first language,

210-453: Is rarely if ever done, and the foregoing shield would be blazoned — as the pale is supposed to be one-third of the width of the field and is always so depicted under these circumstances — per pale azure and gules, a pale argent. but Scottish heraldry does use 'tierced in pale' (e.g. Clackmannan county (now Clackmannanshire ) has Or; a saltire gules; a chief tierced in pale vert, argent, vert ... ) A particular type of tiercing, resembling

240-499: The Alps via what is now known as the Reschen Pass , the route then being called the " Via Claudia Augusta ". The transalpine route retained its importance through the medieval period, being variously called the "Upper Way" ( Oberer Weg / Via Superiore ) or the "Swabia Road" ( Schwabenweg / Via di Svevia ). After 450, a wave of Christian missionaries arrived from Chur . By the time of

270-621: The Black death (1348), from which most of the population of the time died, most of the Vinschgau Valley, including Graun, had been settled by German speakers; the exception being the side valley of Müstair , where the Romansh language survives to this day. German has remained the majority language in Graun since and as of 2011 German was the first language for more than 97% of its population. The escutcheon

300-506: The Reschensee , which was massively deepened and extended when the valley was dammed in order to produce hydro-electricity . The original village was flooded after the dam's completion in July 1950; it had been abandoned and largely demolished, and Graun was rebuilt on the new shore. As the lone exception, the bell-tower of the 14th-century church was spared from destruction. The tower protrudes above

330-669: The Scottish Public Register is before 1677, "parted per chief azure and gules three skenes argent hefted and pomelled Or Surmounted of as many Woolf-heads couped of the third." and a bordure per chief is shown in the arms of Roy, Canada . A chief is considered a charge in English heraldry and is considered layered atop the field. Shields may also be divided into three parts: this is called tierced , as in tierced per pale, azure, argent and gules (though perhaps in English heraldry this

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360-455: The pile , the point of which does not reach the bottom of the shield. With arched or bent (French: ployé ) lines it is called chaussé ployé . One common reason for dividing the field in heraldry is for purposes of combining two or more coats of arms to express alliance, inheritance, occupation of an office, etc. This practice, called marshalling , initially took the form of dimidiation , or splicing together two coats of arms split down

390-483: The arms of the 2nd Weather Group of the United States Air Force , which is Dexter per chevron ployé and sinister per fess enhanced . A shield may also be party per chevron reversed (inverted) , which is like party per chevron except upside down. A section formed by two (straight) lines drawn from the corners of the chief to the point in base is called chaussé (shod), which must be distinguished from

420-487: The arms of their dominions. The arms of Zviahel , Ukraine , show an unusual form of marshalling quarterly with a heart, where one quarter is dimidiated while the others are not. Divisions of the field, like the ordinaries, may follow complex line shapes. Most of these "sections" have developed conventional names in English, but modern artists, particularly in Finland, have developed new sections influenced by shapes found in

450-401: The dexter shield bearing the husband's arms within the circle of his knighthood, and the sinister shield bearing the husband's arms impaled with the wife's usually encircled with a meaningless wreath of oak leaves for artistic balance. A male peer impales the arms of his wife as described above, but including the supporters , coronet and helmet of the peer; if he is also a knight of any order,

480-456: The father's arms in the first (upper left) and fourth (lower right) quarters and his mother's arms in the second (upper right) and third (lower left). In the UK heraldries, complex systems of marshalling have developed, and continue to thrive, around heraldic expressions of inheritance. In many cases of marriage, the shield is impaled with the husband's entire coat of arms placed on the dexter side and

510-550: The field In heraldry , the field (background) of a shield can be divided into more than one area, or subdivision, of different tinctures , usually following the lines of one of the ordinaries and carrying its name (e.g. a shield divided in the shape of a chevron is said to be parted "per chevron"). Shields may be divided this way for differencing (to avoid conflict with otherwise similar coats of arms) or for purposes of marshalling (combining two or more coats of arms into one), or simply for style. The lines that divide

540-621: The height of its popularity during the Victorian era , some coats of arms featured hundreds of "quarterings" (see the Grenville arms at right). More usually, however, a quartered coat of arms consisted of four parts, as the name suggests. The origin and underlying purpose of quartering is to express inheritance by female succession: when a female heir (who has no brothers, or whose brothers have all preceded her in death) dies, her son (only after her death) quarters her arms with those of his father, placing

570-455: The latter can also be found in the arms of Mullsjö Municipality in Sweden. Besides the complex lines discussed above, divisions of the field may also be modified in other ways. Sometimes the division of the field may be fimbriated (lined) or, perhaps less properly, "edged" of another tincture, or divided by some ordinary or its diminutive. The latter differs from a parted field that then bears

600-400: The local flora. Among the most common of these are engrailed, invected, indented, dancetty, wavy (also called undy), nebuly, embattled, raguly, dovetailed and potenty (pictured below). Notable modern forms include the "fir twig section" ( Finnish : havukoro ) and "fir tree top section" ( Finnish : kuusikoro ). These can be found in the arms of a number of municipalities in Finland, and

630-407: The middle (or sometimes, though rarely, split across the centre per fess or quarterly) so that half one coat was matched up with the opposite half of the other. As this would sometimes yield confusing or misleading results, the practice was supplanted by impalement , which kept both coats intact and simply squished them into half the space. According to Fox-Davies (1909), the practice of dimidiation

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660-415: The ordinary, in that if the ordinary thus dividing the field is between charges, the charges are not overlapped by the ordinary but the ordinary is between them. A famous example of this is the greater arms of Sweden , which is "quartered by a cross Or..." One division of the field (though it is sometimes described as a charge) is restricted to the chief: when the chief is divided by a bow-shaped line, this

690-407: The partition lines respectively a bend and a bend sinister enhanced, in base a demi-cogwheel, Or, with a fountain issuant. Shields may also be divided into three parts by a combination of two methods of division, such as party per fess, in chief per pale . Another example is in the arms of Clive Cheesman : per pale and per pall . This is to be distinguished from the essentially unique partition in

720-585: The perspective of the person carrying the shield.) Nowadays, however, the 'party' is often omitted, even in 'official' blazons , e.g. in letters patent and extracts of matriculation. A field cannot be divided per bordure (as, if this did exist, it would be indistinguishable from the bordure), but a bordure can be divided or counter-changed. Neither can a field (nor any charge ) be divided per chief , for similar reasons; though both Canadian and Scottish Public Registers have official records of fields or bordures divided 'per chief'. The earliest such record in

750-471: The shield into usually four (but potentially innumerable) "quarters", and superimposition by placing one coat of arms inescutcheon over another. It is also worth noting that one common form in German-Nordic heraldry is "quarterly with a heart" (a shield quartered with an inescutcheon overall). This may have stemmed from the continental practice of sovereigns placing their own hereditary arms inescutcheon over

780-535: The surface close to the shoreline and has become a landmark; it is the centrepiece of the commune's coat of arms . When water levels fall in the spring, particularly when repairs are made, the ruins of the old village are exposed. In 15 BC the Celtic people then living in the upper Vinschgau valley found themselves incorporated into the Roman Empire following the construction of a commercial and military route crossing

810-472: The title Graun . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graun&oldid=960310679 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Graun im Vinschgau At 1 January 2011, it had

840-710: The two-shield method is used. If a female peer marries a commoner, however, the husband places her arms inescutcheon, surmounted by a coronet of her rank, over his own, but the supporters of her rank cannot be conferred to him; the wife bears her arms singly on a lozenge with the supporters and coronet of her rank. Volumes may be written on all the endless heraldic possibilities of this convoluted system of marshalling, but it may suffice here to say that for various purposes, arms may be marshalled by four basic methods: dimidiation by clipping and splicing two coats (usually per pale), impalement by dividing per pale and crowding an entire coat of arms into each half, quartering by dividing

870-418: The wife's entire coat placed on the sinister side; if the wife is an heiress , however, her arms are placed in escutcheon over her husband's (such usage is almost entirely English, Scots marshalling being impaling like any other marriage arms). If the husband is a knight of any order, however, the ensigns of that order belong only to him and are not shared with his wife. Two separate shields are then employed,

900-400: Was short-lived and had already reached its peak in the early 14th century, while impalement remains in practice to modern times. One important remainder of the practice, however, is that when a coat of arms with a bordure is impaled with another coat, the bordure does not continue down the centre, but stops short where it meets the line of impalement. Eventually quartering gained usage, and in

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