Coat of Arms
Originally oneself passes on family arms. Afterwards the German Emperor and the Count Palatines were able to award coat of arms, from 1806 onwards the sovereigns got used to do so. Yet besides this awarding a self-passing of a coat of arms is being kept till today, too.
1987 a coat-of-arms was created for the Stippler-Family. The paternal dating records could be traced back to the 16th century. This gives information about the professions and the respective native country of the ancestors.
It is interesting, that the profession of a weaver was kept through several (seven) generations. Three ones were settled in Ebermergen, and four ones in Hohenaltheim. According to the symbolization of the last name and the allusion of the weaver's profession this encouraged to stress the single, different domiciles of the ancestors by symbols from the coat-of-arms of the villages concerned, starting in the origin native country of Kleinsorheim (two generations) over Ebermergen (three generations) to Hohenaltheim (four generations).
The St Andrew's cross of the coat of arms of the municipality of Kleinsorheim is put into the label head of the family arms. The lilies, with leaves naturally and heraldically stylized, correspond to the two heraldic lilies in the coat of arms of the municipality of Ebermergen. The blue lion on top is a component of the coat of arms of the municipality of Hohenaltheim.
Instead of a small sign which the lion keeps in the coat of arms of Hohenaltheim a golden shuttle appears here in the family arms with a depending string as a symbol for the weaver's profession.
The colors blue and silver (= white) dominate in the coat of arms of the Stippler-Family. This is the same in the coat of arms of Hohenaltheim, and in the arms of Kleinsorheim, too, where in the upper blue label half a silver St Andrew's cross is located.
Particularly the color gold attracts attention as one symbol for the cooper and one for the weaver. This attains an emphasis on this feature in the coat of arms.
Regarded as a whole the coat of arms is arranged expressively, which means that a lot of the family's history is put in. A good label-filling has been reached by the combination of the tub and the lilies. The tub traces back to the cooper, to which the name Stippler is explained by well-known linguists.
The Herold's committee of the German Heraldic Society in Berlin has registered the family arms under no. 8706/87 and published it in volume 47 of the German Heraldic Society (Neustadt a.d. Aisch, 1987, page 88). The description of the coat of arms is the following:
In a blue background a golden washtub, from which three garden lilies spring out with blades like a fan. A continuous silver star banks this. On the helmet in blue-silver blankets a blue lion comes out with a red tongue, which carries a golden shuttle in his front paws as a post.
The family arms has newly been passed and founded by Wolfgang Stippler, MBA in Nördlingen, for himself and all other descendants in the male line of his great-grandfather Johann Matthäus Stippler (* Hohenaltheim 08-15-1841, + Hohenaltheim 04-09-1928) as far as and as long as those bear the last name of the founder of the family arms.