Böhen Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Böhen, Landkreis Unterallgäu, Bayern

Last modified: 2022-03-12 by klaus-michael schneider
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Böhen Municipality

Böhen Banner

It is a yellow-green-white vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2022

Böhen Coat of Arms

Shield enhanced parted per fess dancetty having two points, beneath charged with a crozier Or in bend, over all a pale wavy in counterchanged tinctures.
Meaning:
The crozier is stressing the close connections between the municipality and the Benedictine Ottobeuren Imperial Abbey. The chronicle of the abbey (1180) mentions the village as possession of the abbey since 764. It remained a possession of the abbey until 1803, when it was secularised. The pale wavy is a representation of the Günz River. The line of partition is symbolising the hilly landscape.
Source: Aegidius Kolb and Manfred Putz: "Wappen im Landkreis Unterallgäu", Mindelheim 1991, p.60
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2022

Banner and arms were approved on 6 April 1983 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Schwaben.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2022

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