But this is not the case. A seal of the year 1811 shows a knife used in the vines, surrounded by branches with the transcription “Gemeinde Buesingen. Vogt” (community of Buesingen. Reeve).
Around 1830 the community of Buesingen used an oval embossing seal with the transcription “Mit Gott und Fleiss. Vogtei Buesingen” (With God and diligence. Bailiwick of Buesingen). It showed a shield with the crest of Baden, two crossing sheaves, behind the sheaves a scythe, a hayfork and a rake.
Later, even traces of coloured rubber stamps with crossing palm branches were found.
The crest, as it is today, was only introduced in 1903 – a time when viniculture in Buesingen was on the decline.
It wasn’t the community of Buesingen who created the present crest but it was marked out for Buesingen by the country’s archive in Karlsruhe. On March 3rd, 1904 the communal assembly accepted the proposal. In this crest, the grapes refer to the viniculture and the thick red framing expresses the location of the village, encapsulated by Switzerland.
Buesingen’s crest showed nice grapes but for the last 70 years, Buesingen didn’t have their own vineyard. This changed in the late 1990s. In 1994 winemaker Andreas von Ow created a vineyard and harvested the first grapes in 1997. Since then, people from Buesingen can drink their own wine again and the grape in the crest found it’s late legitimation.
Buesingen
Buesingen has a winemaker and an its own vineyard: the Hueppbuehl