Moving on from Munich temporarily (at least until my copy of Die Epitaphien an der Frauenkirche zu München arrives in - I hope - a few week...

Last time we saw the marital display of the arms of Elector Ferdinand Maria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, who founded the Theatinerkirche...

Not only is it good to be a Wittlesbach, but if your wife turns out to have a coat of arms with even more quarterings than your own, so muc...

This might also be subtitled, "It's good to be a Wittelsbach." Our next armorial photograph is of the tower of the Alter Hof i...

Or at least, I admit defeat temporarily. I still have four more photographs of armorial memorials on the exterior of the Frauenkirche in Mun...

Many of you will know, as regular readers of this blog, that I watch an HGTV show called "House Hunters International". I watch th...

Continuing our look at some of the armorial memorials set into the outside walls of the Frauenkirche , the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, in Mu...

This plaque is found on the New Town Hall ( Neues Rathaus ) in Munich, and the translated text reads: This town hall was built and furnished...

In my last post, I talked about the frustrations of having a photograph of a married couple's coats of arms, knowing their names, when t...

Well, and by "job", I mean my self-imposed work of identifying coats of arms that I, or one or another friend of mine, has photogr...