The municipal flag and the coat of arms from 1270 showed an eagle and a three-leaved linden tree with flowers.
An illustration of the coat of arms in the Tschachtlan chronicle from 1470 does not contain the linden tree, but a red shield head can be seen above the eagle for the first time.
The eagle owes its use as the heraldic animal of the city of Aarau to a folk etymological reinterpretation of the name as “Au des Aars”.
It showed, washed by spring water and surrounded by vines, a swimming pool in which a man and a woman sit and eat grapes.
The municipal regiment took it to the Battle of Sempach in 1386; the oldest pictorial representation can be found in the Tschachtlanchronik in 1470.
Elfingen's symbol comes from the coat of arms of Hungary in honor of the relationship between the Königsfelden Monastery and Agnes of Austria.
The coat of arms and the flag, which has been held in Grub since the early 19th century, shows the green forest in blue.
Saint George is the church patron and the colors gold and black represents the municipality's former affiliation to the Homburg rule.
The sunrays represents Mitlödi, Sool, Schwändi, Schwanden, Nidfurn, Haslen, Leuggelbach, Luchsingen, Hätzingen, Diesbach, Betschwanden, Rüti, Braunwald, Linthal, Engi, Matt and Elm.
Under the barons of Vaz and the Count v. Werdenberg-Sargans castle was the seat of the court and administration over the valley, at the time of the violent bailiff Hans v. Rechberg, it was stormed and destroyed.
The coat of arms, approved by the local council resolution of December 12, 1934 and by community vote on February 22, 1935, was designed by Paul Ganz, art historian at the University of Basel, and Friedrich Pieth, history teacher at the Chur Cantonal School.
The Bergün district emerged from the old Greifenstein court, which the Greif indicates in the sense of a “talking” coat of arms.
Bregaglia was created on 1 January 2010 and includes the previously independent municipalities of Bondo, Castasegna, Soglio, Stampa and Vicosoprano.
The coat of arms, adopted before 1900, goes back to the nobles of Grandfontaine, a branch of the Rocourt-Abbévillers, extinct in the 14th century.
These are the old coat of arms and flag of the nobles of Spiegelberg, the remains of the castle of which are still visible at Rocher des Sommêtres, 2.5 km from Saignelégier.
Interpretations suggest that they are either an abbreviation of the municipality, an acronym of "La Vera Giustizia Antica" or a symbol of a Roman legion.
The left half of the shield with the three red tinctures is intended to commemorate the three village fires of 1400, 1693 and 1799, while the black eagle in yellow indicates the former imperial affiliation.
[14] The coat of arms and the flag was used by the community in the seal around the middle of the 19th century at the latest, but was not precisely defined until 1968.
[17] The coat of arms and the flag depicts the four residential and defensive towers from the 12th century, of which the defiant Meierturm is still preserved in its original form.
The image refers to the church patroness St. Ida of Toggenburg, whose attribute is the deer with twelve light-bearing antler ends.