Aliancní erb / Alliance CoA: Heinrich Eduard Schönburg-Hartenstein & Ludovika Schwarzenberg - Cernovice u Tábora (South-East Bohemia) - Coats of Arms on Waymarking.com

Depicted, incorrectly restored in colours and details, is the alliance CoA of one of Cernovice demesne owners, Heinrich Eduard Schönburg-Hartenstein and his wife Ludovika Schwarzenberg, on belfry at Church of the Elevation of Holy Cross in Cernovice. For the real design of CoA see picture.

A detached belfry at Church of the Elevation of Holy Cross (Kostel Povýšení svatého Kríže), originally structure with a Gothic core, was elevated and rebuilt in Baroque style in 17th and 18th centuries. The present appearance tower obtained during the last modification after the fire in 1857, when the Baroque onion roof was destroyed and replaced by the neo-Gothic pyramidal roof. Inside are three bells from 1926, clockwork and dials are from 1941. The tower is decorated with two coats of arms: Paradis de Eschaide and restorer of the tower, a married couple Schönburg-Schwarzenberg.

Heinrich Eduard Schönburg-Hartenstein (1787–1872) came from an old German aristocratic family, already mentioned in the 12th century. He was the third of the four sons of Otto Karl Schönburg-Waldenburg and became the founder of the family line, called Schönburg-Hartenstein. He obtained an incollate in Bohemia in 1811. Based on this right, he bought Cernovice, Cervená Lhota, Hojovice, Chválkov and in Moravia he bought Staré Brno, Královo Pole. Of his two marriages with princesses of the Schwarzenberg family, only his son Alexander lived to adulthood.

Ludovika Schwarzenberg was the fifth of nine children of Josef Prince Schwarzenberg (1769-1833) and Paulina von Arenberg (1774-1810). At the age of twenty in 1823, she married a 16-year-old widower after her older sister Paulina (1798-1821).