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Gruyères commune (Fribourg/Freiburg canton, Switzerland)

Last modified: 2006-12-30 by pascal gross
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[Flag of Gruyères] image by Pascal Gross

Gules, a Crane rising Argent.

Željko Heimer, 4 November 2000

A room in the castle of Gruyères has murals depicting the development of the flag. I forget the exact details, but an early duke carried a plain red banner in battle. Later he impaled a crane (grue) on the pike as a good luck charm. Perhaps he eventually got tired of carrying dead smelly birds, and the crane ended up more economically on the flag itself.

Todd Mills, 4 November 2000