Eschen (Liechtenstein)

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• Description of the flags
  • Vertical flag, simple stripes
  • Vertical flag, stripes and arms
    • variant
• Banner of the arms
  • Horizontal banner of the arms

See also:

• Subnational flags of Liechstenstein
• Liechtenstein

Description of the flags

• Flag description: blue, with a white wavy stripe in the center (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73].)
• Flags actually used:
  • vertical flag, simple stripes
  • square flag, banner-of-arms
  • horizontal flag, banner-of-arms
  • vertical flag, stripes with banner-of-arms in the head

According to [kra81], it is blue, divided by a silver wavy band (representing the brook Esche).
Jan Oskar Engene 11 April 1996

Banner of the arms

image by M. Schmöger

• Arms description (German):
  • Die silberne Taube mit dem blutigen Holzspan im Schnabel oben im blauen Schild und unten das silberne Wellenband der Esche (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85].)
  • Querfluss eine fliegende silberne Taube mit roten Füssen, im Schnabel einen roten Span haltend (Sources: [jsu73].)
• Arms blazoning (English): Azure, over a bar wavy abased Argent a pigeon volant Argent with feet Gules, holding a splinter Gules in its beak.
• Arms granted: 16 April 1942 (by Francis Joseph II, the reigning prince) (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73].)
• Reasons for the arms: pigeon from the arms of the monastery Pfäfers, that had owned the church at Eschen. (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73])

The arms are azure with a silver dove, with red feet, holding in its beak a red piece of wood. At the bottom appears a silver wave. The silver dove holding a red piece of wood appears in the arms of the covent of Pfaefers who owned the church in Eschen. The arms were adopted on 16 April, 1942.
Pascal Vagnat, 21 November 1995

The decree actually says «a bloody piece of wood».
Ralf Stelter, 21 March 2001

Square flag, banner-of-arms. Source for this flag design: Liechtenstein 1978-1988 — Bilder, Texte und Dokumente. Verlag der Fürstlichen Regierung, Vaduz 1988: p. 274.
M. Schmöger, 13 September 2009

Horizontal banner of the arms

image by M. Schmöger

Source: my own observations and photos, on 15 August 2009, at Vaduz castle and Eschen; Adulf Peter Goop et al.: Brauchtum Liechtenstein. Alpenland Verlag, Schaan 2005: pp. 211, 246.
M. Schmöger, 13 September 2009