Großaitingen

	GROSSAITINGEN Country : Germany State : Bayern District (Kreis) : Augsburg (until 1972 Schwabmünchen) Additions: 1978 Reinhartshofen (partly) Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":48.22807999999999850615495233796536922454833984375,"lon":10.7797699999999991860022419132292270660400390625,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
German	In von Weiß und Blau gerautetem Schild eine goldene Kugel mit innerer Einfasslinie und Querstrich (Reichsapfel).
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on August 21, 1954

In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter acquired so much land in the area through donations and purchases and established a bailiwick in the village. The Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen (1739 to 1812), required all possessions of the Diocese to mark all boundary stones, boundary posts, pasture pillars, and municipal equipment with the local symbol. Großaitingen did not have its own symbol and took the orb from the arms of the neighbouring town of Schwabmünchen.

When Großaitingen became part of Bavaria in the early 19th century, the imperial orb has been placed on the Bavarian arms. Interestingly, the orb is shown as seen from above, resembling a circle with a bar. Normally an orb is show from the side (see here).

In the 19th century the shield was topped by three ears of corn between a scythe and a flail and surrounded by a leafy branch on both sides. On August 30, 1838, the State Ministry of the Interior approved the continued use of these arms, but in July 1928, the Ministry decreed that the ears of corn, tools, and branches should no longer be used. The arms were then officially granted in 1954.

Image gallery

The arms in Kramer (1841) with the external ornaments

Literature: Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte

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