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HERENTALS
Province : Antwerpen
Additions : 1977 Morkhoven, Noorderwijk
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- (1819) Van rood, beladen met een gouden boom.
- (1841) Een rood veld met eenen zilveren boom met dry wortels en takken zonder getal, afhangende, ook van zilver.
- (1989) In keel een uitgerukte boom van zilver.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on October 6, 1819 and again on January 9, 1841. The colour of the tree was changed on May 9, 1989.
Herentals' coat of arms has always featured a tree. Historians are not in agreement about the origin of the tree, which took various shapes throughout the centuries. A picture of the arms with the historically correct colours (red and white) first appears about 1536. Why in 1819 the arms were granted with a golden tre eis not known. This was not corrected in 1841.
 The arms from 1818 |
 The arms in the Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums +/- 1930 |
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Literature : Anonymous : Van evers en heiligen - wapens en vlaggen van de gemeenten in de provincie Antwerpen. Antwerpen, 1998. Information provided by the municipality of Herentals.