27-12-2019, 01:18 AM
(27-12-2019, 12:20 AM)voynichbombe wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I can say at a first shot, if you want to stay connected to the German language: The swallowtail battlements were more a decorative feature, and somehow a mark (maybe heraldry) of the Guelphs and Ghibellines (Welfen) of Baden-Würtemberg / Stuttgart region, but active in now South-Tirol and North-Italy. Back then (when) there were no such things, as outlined in another post: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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The Ghibelline merlons were political (very political). By the 16th century they had become mostly decorative.