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            The Haunreiter family crest is located inside the church in Stammham in a room at the base of the stiple.  The crest is carved into a piece of marble with an inscription at the base marking the tomb of Philip Haunreiter of Haunreit.   This is the only tomb within the church with the exception of the tombs of two priests.  The walls of the room arch up to the ceiling in a classic gothic style arch.  A door on the east wall leads into the main church, a door to the south leads out into the church courtyard.  The crest is on the west wall.  A statue of Mary is in an alcove to the north.
             Close examination of the crest shows a boat in the upper left hand corner with oars and in the upper right hand corner a shovel and hook.  The boat and oars represent the families rights to the ferry crossing at Haunreit, .   It is not known what particular meaning the shovel and hook have. 
         
        Figure 5. Tomb of Philip Haunreiter
         
        Figure 6.  Boat and Oar, Shovel and Hook.
        Figure 7.  Horns with separation

         
             The horns rising from the helm are bisected in half by two raised lines, Figure 7.  This di-vision usually indicates a change in color in a painted crest.  The helm is surrounded by man-teling that is in relief slightly lower than the field of the shield and helm.
            The helmet is a fifteenth century jousting style helmet.  It is a helmet of great strength formed of three pieces of different thicknesses which are fixed together with strong iron rivets with salient heads and thin brass caps soldered to them.  Figure 6 shows how this type of helmet would have been connected with the rest of the armour in a German suit of tilting armour from the collection at the royal museum of Vienna .

         
        Figure 8. Helm on Crest relative to suit of tilting armour.
             The closed or “visored” helmet is representative of the newly ennobled.  Older families of higher position used the buckled open helm (bars or grilles).
        The shield depicts a knight armed with a pick axe.  The style of armour worn differs from that of the helm and mantle.  The helmet style incorporates a device called the “armet”.  This is the hinged face shield that when closed is supported  by the steel collar or “gorget”.  This style dates to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

        Family Crests

        The first crest shown below marks the tomb of Philip Haunreiter in the church in Stammham.  The following two crests were identified in the book: "Grosses Wappen Bilder Lexicon" by Ottfried Neubecker.   The colors indicated are not accurate but only input by the author to illustrate the detail in the crests.