Family coat of arms of the main trunk

M u e n k e r   f r o m   S i e g e n   i n   W e s t p h a l i a

Description

In blue over golden three-mountain, covered with a blue wave beam ¹⁾ and a half red water wheel,
a jumping golden deer, which one accompanies of a fallen and opened golden ball pliers ²⁾ on the right. On the blue and golden stuffed helmet with same covers the deer growing.

1) wave beam = brook run
2) puddle ball is unforged pig-iron

Origin

The coat of arms has been developed in the 20's. It was made from a signet, that Muenker families in Ferndorf vorm Berg (“in front of the mountain”) sealed with since the 18th century. The origin of the seal is certainly older.

The coat of arms was assumed at the 2nd family day in Ferndorf on 4./5. September 1971 for the Siegen lineage and all descendants in the male line of the master father Ewert Moncker to Siegen (* around 1415).

Design:   Hellmuth Münker, Kaltenkirchen (Germany)
Drawing: Hans Ritt (heraldist), Bad Nauheim (Germany)

Sense interpretation

The family coat of arms contains the old tokens of the signet, the jumping deer, which those ancestors engraved because of their solidarity with nature, likewise the mountains also the
brook run. A supplement the coat of arms found by the inclusion of two symbols from that life of the ancestors, the water wheel (drive of the hammers and mills) and the ball pliers (symbol of the forging art). Finally the larger mountain in the middle represents the master place.
Its importance and relationship for the lineage were so great that this one was added to the surname in the parish-registers of Ferndorf two and a half centuries as supplement:
Münker vorm Berg (“Muenker in front of the mountain”).

Publication of the family coat of arms

Entry in the German list of coat of arms named “Herald” (Deutsche Wappenrolle “Herold”, Berlin) and in the German Lineage Book (Deutsches Geschlechterbuch “DGB” , volume 164
and 199).

Created: 11.1.2001