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    Besitzen Sie ein (Schweizer) Familienwappen oder haben Sie eines in der Schweiz anfertigen lassen und welche Erfahrungen haben Sie damit gemacht?


    Irgendwo auf meiner Bünzli-To-Do-Liste steht neben dem obligatorischen goldenen Vreneli auch die Erstellung eines Familienwappens für uns Erreicht
    und ein Faustkampf gegen Habsburgermonarchen
    im Gange.

    Welche Erfahrungen haben Sie damit gemacht und wenn Sie eines anfertigen lassen, welchen Wappenhandwerker würden Sie empfehlen?

    Der Artikel, der mich daran erinnerte:

    Serie Schweizer Kuriositäten, Folge 15: Die meisten Schweizer Familien haben ein Wappen. Dies mag im Ausland überraschen, wo die Heraldik oft dem Adel vorbehalten ist. Diese Begeisterung lässt sich jedoch nicht nur mit der Tradition, sondern auch mit der Mode erklären.

    „Der Anteil der Familien mit eigenem Wappen ist von Kanton zu Kanton unterschiedlich, aber immer signifikant. Beispielsweise haben 80–90 % der Familien im Kanton Freiburg ein eigenes Wappen“, erklärt Heribert Bielmann, Präsident des Institut fribourgeois d’héraldique et de généalogie.

    https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-abroad/switzerland-the-promised-land-of-wappen/88569512

    Do you have a (Swiss) family coat of arms or have you had one made in Switzerland and what is your experience with it?
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    1. Aramed85 on

      Yes, my family has a coat of arms. There is no experience, we just have it. Many people i know have one.

      Edit: my father has a golden ring with the crest. A Siegelring.

    2. M_Mirror_2023 on

      I hate to be incredibly unhelpful but… I was once in the bowls of Zentralbibliothek Zürich, and I started pulling random books off the shelf. I happened across a book full of Swiss heraldry beautifully illustrated. It’s probably exactly what you’re after. I was looking for historical records of old Swiss names to trace my family back. Perhaps you could try a similar search?

    4. Laggoss_Tobago on

      Picture is from the Zunfthaus zur Waag.

      If you become a member of a guild, you have to prove that you are historically eligible to carry your coat of arms to a commission. If you fail, you can create a new one.

    5. Stock-Variation-2237 on

      We have one granted by the Holy Roman Emperor. My experience is good thank you.

    6. AssassinOfSouls on

      Yes, the issue is we don’t know the colours. The surviving depictions are all in the family book in the Patriciate archives and are unfortunatrly only in black and white 🙁

      A friend of the family eventually “recolored it” and put it in a bunch of forniture as a gift for a marriage, but this was back in the 70s.

      The recolored version looks right but unfortunately there is no way of knowing if those were indeed the correct colours.

    7. Technical_Leader8250 on

      We have one. In little village I grew up we are even decoration of the windows. Little colorful painted glass frames in the middle of each big window. The building is the majors-house which also used to be the armory, grainery and brewery during the years

    8. redrumeight on

      Yes i have one as well. Its a lion holding an axe – i kinda like it.

    10. Technical_Leader8250 on

      This (unfortunately in the meantime broken) page contains description and pictures of a lot of them.
      Sometime which village you are from even changes which walpen. So it is not per name, but per clan 😉
      https://www.chgh.ch/

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