Rosenmund

Switzerland
Arms in Switzerland have always been freely assumed without official 
control, and the use of heraldry by burgher and farming families is 
probably more widespread in Switzerland than in any other country. 
Many cantonal or municipal archives maintain collections of the arms 
of local families, although a few that formerly did so have 
privatized these collections, placing them in the custody of local 
residents with an interest in heraldry, as a budgetary measure. Some 
of the cantons accept the addition into these collections of newly 
adopted arms or newly discovered arms used by families from the 
canton in the past. It must be emphasized that recording arms in 
these collections does not constitute official registration of the 
arms. The cantonal government does not thereby vouch for the 
validity of the arms or any genealogical evidence submitted with 
them, and recording the arms does not offer any legal protection 
against their misuse. Among the cantons whose websites state that 
they are accepting new arms for recording are Basel-Land, Lucerne, 
and Vaud (Basel-Land and Lucerne in German, Vaud in French). A 
number of the cantons have digitized their collections and placed 
them on-line.
Several private and quasi-private organizations in Switzerland will 
help applicants design new arms and assist them in preparing the 
necessary documentation to enter them with the appropriate cantonal 
and local archives. In addition, some of these organizations 
maintain arms registries of their own, including: 

http://www.heraldrysociety.us/ForeignRegistration/index.php?
page=register4&

http://www.baselland.ch/docs/archive/wappen_bemerkung.htm