Bonn coat of arms
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Federal city Bonn State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Colors from the coats of arms of the districts |
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| Introduction: | 1971 |
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March 4, 1971 |
| Changes: | 1971 |
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1 main statute of the federal city of Bonn from July 1st, 1996 (PDF file, 35.7 kB) |
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The coat of arms of the city of Bonn is divided and shows the black cross of the bar of the former Cologne electoral state on a silver background in the upper half and the golden Bonn lion in the lower half.
description
Blazon of the Bonn city coat of arms : "Divided by silver and red, above a continuous black bar cross, below a looking, striding golden lion ."
Coat of arms declaration:
The black Electorate of Cologne cross the electorate of Cologne, which on other arms in the former territory of the Cologne electorate can still be found, symbolized the territorial and political ties between Bonn and Cologne Elector in Bonn had their residence since 1597th The golden lion in red goes back to an old Bonn court symbol. The sculpture of the lion - popularly known as the “stone wolf” - stood on the Münsterplatz from the Middle Ages until the end of the electoral era on the site of today's Ludwig van Beethoven monument . This place was the meeting place of the Bonn judicial community and was called Hof am Leopard . The original sculpture found its place in the Bonn City Museum today, a cast is in Bonn's old town hall .
Since the Middle Ages, the striding and looking lion is often used in heraldry . H. the lion with its head turned towards the viewer, known as the leopard .
The Bonn coat of arms has existed in its current form since 1971. It was designed by the heraldist Walther Bergmann and approved on July 8, 1971 by the Cologne District President.
Until 1969 the description of the coat of arms was:
"Raised, divided by silver and blue, above a continuous, stand-up cross, below a striding red lion ."
Coat of arms 1732–1969,
traditional coat of arms of the
city district of Bonn
Coat of arms since 1971,
official representation of the
city of Bonn
history
The Bonn coat of arms goes back to a Roman image, presumably from the Mithras cult , showing a lion striking a boar, popularly known as the "Stone Wolf". The lion was included in the Bonn city seal as a letter or missive seal in a slightly gothic form and with the Middle Latin inscription "Sigillum oppidi Bonna ad missivas" ("Sigillum oppidi Bonna (e) ad missivas litteras" - "Seal of the city of Bonn for missives "(sealed letters by courier). In the aldermen's seal around 1300, only the lion can be seen, which was still adorned with a crown in 1690. The lion originally wore the color red on a silver field. Under the electors, whose colors were blue and silver, the silver field was replaced by a blue one. The red lion on a blue field led to a violation of the heraldic color rule . After the municipal area reform of 1969 it became necessary to give the city a new coat of arms, and this color violation was corrected with a golden lion on a red field .
The former coat of arms of the city of Bonn is used today as Bonn's traditional coat of arms for the city district of Bonn, which largely corresponds to the city of Bonn within the limits of 1969.
Coats of arms of incorporated municipalities
Bad Godesberg's coat of arms since 1900
Coat of arms since 1952
city of Beuel
Coat of arms since 1958
Duisdorf municipality
bad Godesberg
The coat of arms of the former city of Bad Godesberg :
"In red on a green Dreiberg, a golden castle made up of two tinned flank towers and a tinned higher main tower with a silver round portal and open black portcullis, overlaid by a little shield with a continuous black cross in it in silver."
The representation symbolizes the Godesburg in three sections. They are intended to symbolize the three districts of Godesberg with Rüngsdorf and Plittersdorf , which Godesberg consisted of when the coat of arms was introduced in 1900. The keep bears the coat of arms of Kurköln as a sign of long-term membership in the Electorate of Cologne.
The coat of arms goes back to an initiative of the Godesberg mayor Anton Dengler in 1896 and was approved in September 1900. Since 1925 the colors red and gold have been the city colors of Bad Godesberg, which were taken over by the city of Bonn in 1969 after it was incorporated into the city. The old coat of arms of the city of Bad Godesberg is now used as a traditional coat of arms through the city district of the same name.
Bump
The coat of arms of the former city of Beuel :
“In gold on blue waves, a red ferry with a side rudder and a silver pennant in the mast; in the head of the shield thirteen six-pointed blue stars in a ratio of 5: 3: 5. "
The stars symbolize the 13 villages that originally formed the city of Beuel, the ferry emphasizes the special importance of the ferry operations for Beuel, especially up to the construction of the Rhine bridge .
The city coat of arms was designed by Beuel's private art professor Theodor Pape and approved by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior on August 24, 1952 and awarded on the same day together with the city charter. Since it was incorporated into Bonn, it has been used as a traditional coat of arms by the Beuel district.
Hardtberg
The Hardtberg district has the traditional coat of arms of the former municipality of Duisdorf , which was designed in 1958 by the Düsseldorf heraldist Walther Bergmann. Blazon:
"Under a silver shield head, inside a continuous black bar cross, in blue a silver grate made of five rods with a ring."
The grate is that of the martyr and Saint Lawrence of Rome , the namesake of the parish of Lessenich , of which Duisdorf was formerly a member.
Web links
- www.bonn.de (PDF file, 89 kB) - Information on the city arms
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0816-7 , p. 118 .
- ↑ Bonn traditional coat of arms
- ^ Bad Godesberg coat of arms
- ↑ Beuler coat of arms
- ^ Hardtberger coat of arms