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![[Flag of Danderyd]](../images/s/se-01-62.gif)
by Elias
Granqvist
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The flag is a banner of the arms. The arms was given to the town of Djursholm in 1916.
The main part of the flag consist of the arms of the family Banér - owners of the Djursholm estate for about 300 years. The most prominent member of this family would be Johan Banér, who was a general in the Swedish army in the 30 Years' War; he was born at Djursholm castle. The chief with the three roses were added to the arms of Djursholm as a sign for the "garden town".
On 1 January 1971 Djursholm was merged with Danderyd. The new municipality
took the name of Danderyd but the arms of Djursholm.
Elias Granqvist, 2001-Apr-16
Official blazon in Swedish: "En silverspets i rött fält och däröver en chef av silver, belagd med tre röda rosor."
Blazoned in English: "Gules a Pile Argent issuant from dexter pointing
to sinister and on a Chief of the second three Roses of the first."
English blazon by Željko Heimer, 2001-Apr-16
The pile is in Swedish heraldry called a "kil", and is indeed issuant from the chief.
A "spets" is however by default issuant from the base, and is broader than a pile. While a pile at its broadest is not as broad as the field, a "spets" is. In German it is called Spitze. What would the English word for this be?
The "spets" in Danderyd's arms should really
be blazoned as a "vänsterspets", as it is
pointing to sinister (= vänster = left).
Elias Granqvist, 2001-Apr-16
I don't believe we have one. A rather broad, "inverted" pile you are describing would not be regarded as a charge, but simply as a field divided "party per chevron", it seems to me.
The German "Spitze" translates as (among
other things) "point, apex, summit" (I assume "spets"
can be similarly translated.)
Al Kirsch, 2001-Apr-17