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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.
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 ...
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 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.
Family / Clan Alternative form(s) Coat of arms Haderschlieff Hagedorn: Hagemeister: Haliburton: von dem Halle: Helle von Hameln Haselau von Hausen Haxelberg von Heemskerk: von Hein Hayne Heidenstein von Hemmerdey von Herforden Herlitz von Holty: Hohenstein: von Holten Holsten von Huyssen: Huxer
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]
The origins of the coats of arms of German federal states covers the historical context for the current arms of the German länder.. After the end of the Third Reich, Germany had lost significant parts of its territory and was divided into four occupation zones.
Coat of arms of the Albrecht family (1895) The Albrecht family is a North German family whose members have been prominent as civil servants, politicians and businesspeople. . The family was among the hübsche ("courtly" or "genteel") families of the Kingdom of Hanover, the informal third elite group after the nobility and the clergy that encompassed the higher bourgeoisie and university ...