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All the German states have coats of arms, as do the city-states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen). Most were composed when the states joined the Federation, but draw on previous influences. These cities typically bear a large open crown over the shield, a privilege granted under German town law.
B Name Period Seat/Origins Canton Remarks Personalities Coat of arms Bart zu Koppenhausen The Bärtts of Kopenhausen Siebmacher 1605:83,13 Baurenfreund Baurenfreund Siebmacher 1605:89,12 Baymundt Baymundt Siebmacher 1605:99,3 Behaim von Abensberg 1120-vor 1681 Village of Behaim bei Moosburg, Abensberg, Freising House of Beheim von Adelshausen Behem von Adelzhausen Pehaim von Adelshausen Beheim ...
The origin of the Baltic Hahn families is largely unclear. Presumed, though unproven, the connection between the Hahn family in Mecklenburg and the families in Courland [5] and Öesel is a conventional explanation of their coat of arms being identical to one another and virtually identical to that of the descendants of Eckhard Hahn. [6]
Coat of arms. The von der Leyen family (German pronunciation: [fɔn deːɐ̯ ˈlaɪən]) is a German noble family which made its fortune as silk merchants and silk weaving industrialists. The Mennonite family established a major textile business in Krefeld in the 18th century. In its heyday, the business delivered silk to most European courts ...
The griffin coat of arms still refers to the coat of arms used in Hessen and Thuringia and Saxony by using the same horns and red and white colours in the horns. This Falcken family, whose patriarch is “Knight” Heyso Falcken, (mentioned in 1359) is a bastard son. [4] of the House of Hesse (they are descendants from the House of Reginar ...
The Palatine Lion (German: Pfälzer Löwe), less commonly the Palatinate Lion, is an heraldic charge (see also: heraldic lions). It was originally part of the family coat of arms of the House of Wittelsbach and is found today on many coats of arms of municipalities, counties and regions in South Germany and the Austrian Innviertel.
Coat of arms (Stammwappen) of the aristocratic family Rüde von Bödigheim and its collateral lines to which the Boßler named branch belongs [1]Boßler German:, also spelled Bossler or Bosler in some family branches or testimonies of earlier centuries, is the changed name of a patrilineal lateral branch of the patrician family Rüde German: based in the electoral palatinate chief ...
The republican coat of arms took up the idea of the German crest established by the Paulskirche movement, using the same charge animal, an eagle, in the same colors (black, red and or), but modernising its form, including a reduction of the heads from two to one. The artistic rendition of the eagle was very realistic.