Pleinfeld - Wappen

The market and the Pleinfeld office came to the Eichstätt monastery in 1302. Pleinfeld was a fiefdom of the Margraves of Zoller until 1508. In 1486, at the request of the Bishop of Eichstätt Wilhelm von Reichenau (1464 to 1496), Emperor Friedrich II confirmed the market rights and at the same time awarded the coat of arms.The coat of arms of the bishop bears the date of issue of February 24, 1486, but only then becomes valid with the imperial counter-seal of November 29, 1486. The bishop's staff refers to the Eichstätt bishopric and reminds of the long reign up to the secularization of 1802. From 1819 it was missing as a reference to the former sovereignty.For a long time there was uncertainty about the colors. The colors of the head of the shield and the bishop's staff change from red, gold and silver. The crossing is alternately silver and black or silver and red, in the 19th century silver and blue for patriotic reasons.On the occasion of the anniversary “500 years of the Pleinfeld market survey” in 1984, a copy of the coat of arms from 1486 was discovered, which probably dates from the time of the award. The colors clearly emerge from it.Since then, the market town has had its coat of arms in the historically correct colors.Description of coat of arms:
Under a red shield head, inside a horizontal silver bishop's staff, quartered
Colors: 1 and 4 silver, 2 black, 3 redpleinfeld.de/marktwappen