Great coat of arms of Prussia

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The large coat of arms of Prussia denotes the large version of the Prussian coat of arms . Together, the large and medium royal arms with the royal title of King of Prussia were corrected for the last time on August 16, 1873 by amending the “Most High Decree of January 11, 1864”.

Description of the escutcheon

The coat of arms is divided into six stakes five times and eight times transversely into nine rows, the last of which forms the undivided shield base , and consists of three middle shields , the 48 fields and the shield base of the main shield.

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Coat of arms scheme according to Appendix B

of the decree of August 16, 1873

Large coat of arms of the German emperors as kings of Prussia

Center shields

1. Kingdom of Prussia

The first central shield, covered with the royal crown, lies on the heart.

In silver field a black, gold reinforced, rotgezungter Adler , who with the royal crown crowned and in the right claw the golden king's scepter , in the left a blue, gold tired and crossed orb holds. The wings are decorated with golden clover stems. On the eagle's chest is the name of King Frederick I, the entwined letters FR .

2. Margraviate of Brandenburg

The second central shield, covered with the Kurhut , is on the place of honor.

In the silver field a red, gold-armored, red-tongued eagle adorned with the electoral hat. In the right claw he holds a golden scepter, in the left a gold-hilted sword. The wings are decorated with golden clover stems. On the chest lies a blue heart shield , in which an upright golden scepter appears.

3. Burggraftum Nuremberg and County of Hohenzollern

The third central shield, covered with a prince's hat , is divided across and lies on the main (navel) point.

a. Above in the golden frame, surrounded by a frame made up of twelve pieces of silver and red, a black, erect, red-armored, red-tongued and red-crowned lion with a double tail (Nuremberg).

b. Below is a square quartered by silver and black (Hohenzollern).

Main shield

The main shield is divided into forty-eight fields by five longitudinal sections, only touching the base of the shield, and eight transverse sections; Each row consists of six fields, which, according to the rule originally applicable to the Royal Prussian Coat of Arms, are counted from the center from the right to the left, i.e. jumping by stake, so that the third field in the top row is the first and the fourth field the second, the second field as the third, the fifth field as the fourth, the first field as the fifth, the sixth field as the sixth; in the second row counts the third field as the seventh, the fourth as the eighth, and so on.

The forty-eight fields of the main shield are as follows according to the sequential order of the model:

4. Sovereign Duchy of Silesia

In the golden field a black, gold-armored, red-tongued eagle covered with a ducal crown. A silver crescent moon rests on its chest, and a silver cross grows between its upwardly sloping tips.

5. Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine

In the silver field the Prussian imperial eagle, on the breast of which rests a green heart shield covered with a crown and covered with a silver, wavelike oblique bar.

6. Grand Duchy of Poznan

In the silver field the Prussian imperial eagle, on whose chest a red heart shield covered with a crown and covered with a silver, gold-armored, red-tongued, gold-crowned eagle rests.

7. Duchy of Saxony

In a field striped ten times by gold and black, a green diamond wreath lying diagonally to the right.

8. Duchy of Westphalia

In the red field a soaring silver horse .

9. Duchy of Engern

In the silver field three red Schröter horns, two and one set.

10. Duchy of Pomerania

In the silver field a red, gold-armored, red-tongued griffin.

11. Duchy of Lueneburg

In the golden field sprinkled with red hearts a blue, red-tongued lion.

12. Duchy of Holstein

In the red field a shield, divided transversely by silver and red, which is accompanied at the two upper corners and at the lower edge by a silver nail with the point turned inwards, but at the upper edge and on both sides by a silver nettle leaf.

13. Duchy of Schleswig

In the silver field two blue, red-tongued lions walking one above the other.

14. Duchy of Magdeburg

Divided across by red and silver.

15. Duchy of Bremen

In the red field, two silver keys in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, with the beards turned outwards, between which a silver rod cross rises in the upper corner.

16. Duchy of Guelders

In the blue field a golden, red-tongued, crowned lion.

17. Duchy of Cleve

In a red field a silver shield from which eight golden lily wands emerge in the form of a common cross and a St. Andrew's cross.

18. Duchy of Jülich

In the golden field a black, red-tongued lion.

19. Duchy of Berg

In the silver field a red, blue-armored, blue-tongued and blue-crowned lion.

20. Duchy of Wenden

In the silver field a griffin, which is streaked six times to the left in red and green.

21. Duchy of Cassuben (= Pomerania-Wolgast)

In the golden field a black, red-tongued griffin.

22. Duchy of Crossen

In the golden field a black, gold-armored, red-tongued eagle, on whose breast lies a silver crescent moon with its tips turned upwards.

23. Duchy of Lauenburg

In the red field, surrounded by an edging of twelve pieces of silver and black, a silver horse's head.

24. Duchy of Mecklenburg

In the golden field a torn-off black buffalo head turned forward with a red tongue, silver horns, silver nose rings and red crown.

25. Landgraviate of Hesse

In the blue field, a lion with eight cross-stripes of silver and red, gold-armored, red-tongued and crowned lion.

26. Landgraviate of Thuringia

In the blue field, a lion with eight stripes of red and silver, armored with gold, red-tongued and crowned.

27. Margraviate of Upper Lusatia

In the blue field a golden wall with three pinnacles.

28. Margraviate of Nieder-Lausitz

In the silver field a striding red bull.

29. Principality of Orange

In the golden field a left-facing blue hunting horn with golden fittings and a red ribbon.

30. Principality of Rügen

Divided across: in the upper golden part a black, red-armored, red-tongued and red-crowned lion with a double tail, emerging from the lower blue, from the five red, double-sided ascending steps.

31. Principality of East Frisia

In the black field a golden, crowned virgin eagle, which is accompanied above and below by two six-pointed golden stars.

32. Principality of Paderborn and County of Pyrmont

Divided in length: in the first red field a common golden cross (Paderborn); in the second silver field a red anchor cross (Pyrmont).

33. Principality of Halberstadt

Divided lengthways by silver and red.

34. Principality of Munster

In the blue field a golden crossbar.

35. Principality of Minden

In the red field, two silver keys in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, with the beards turned outwards.

36. Principality of Osnabrück

In the silver field a red wagon wheel with eight spokes.

37. Principality of Hildesheim

Divided lengthways by red and gold.

38. Principality of Verden

In the silver field a black pointed paw high cross (so-called "nail cross").

39. Principality of Cammin

A silver anchor cross in the red field.

40. Principality of Fulda

In the silver field a common black cross.

41. Principality of Nassau

In the blue field strewn with diamond-shaped golden shingles a golden, red-tongued, crowned lion.

42. Principality of Mörs

A black crossbar in the golden field.

43rd princely county of Henneberg

In the golden field, on a green hill, a black hen with a red comb and rag and with golden claws.

44. County Glatz, part of the sovereign Duchy of Silesia

In the red field two golden oblique left bars.

45. Mark and Ravensberg counties

Divided into the length: in the first golden fields of a red and silver in three rows geschachter transom (Mark); in the second silver field three red rafters (Ravensburg).

46. ​​County of Hohenstein

A field dotted three times in four rows by red and silver.

47. Counties of Tecklenburg and Lingen

Divided lengthways: in the first silver field three red hearts set in two and one (Tecklenburg); in the second blue field a golden lowered anchor (Lingen).

48. Mansfeld County

In the silver field six red diamonds set up in two rows.

49. County of Sigmaringen

In the blue field a golden deer walking on a green three-hill.

50. County of Vehringen

In the golden field three blue four-pronged deer horns lying one above the other. In this field, the coat of arms of the Counts of Nellenburg got caught by officials' mistakes. Red stag horns on gold belong in the field.

51. Rule of Frankfurt a. M.

In the red field a silver, gold-armored and red-tongued eagle.

52. In the shield base

because of the regalia a red field.

Description of the coat of arms tent and the other splendid pieces of the great royal coat of arms

In the middle of the upper edge of the main shield is an open, red-lined, golden royal helmet, which is adorned with an eagle and other artificial ornaments in chased work, as well as with a chain and attached jewel. The Prussian royal crown rests on the helmet, from which on both sides the inside of silver and the inside of black tinged helmet covers descend. It consists of a golden browband adorned with seventeen faceted gemstones of alternating shape, which is set with five leaves made up of three larger and one smaller diamond and between them with four prongs, each of which bears a large diamond. From the five leaves emerge an equal number of semicircular golden brackets, each tapering towards the apex and uniting there, each with nine diamonds of decreasing size. On the top of the head rests a blue orb with gold and crosses, also adorned with precious stones. The chains of the Order of the Black Eagle, the Order of the Red Eagle, the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern and the ribbon of the Order of the Crown hang around the shield. Shield holders are two wild gray-bearded men, wreathed and girdled with oak leaves, who stand on an ornate console and lean on the main edge of the shield. The shield holder on the right holds the Prussian standard with his right arm, the one on the left with the Brandenburg gold standard. In the openwork tips of the lances the name FR is shown in golden antiqua script. The flags are trimmed with golden fringes and the Prussian with black and silver, the Brandenburg with red and silver interwoven flying and comfortable cords. The eagles in the flags, the heads of which are turned towards the lance pole, coincide with the first and second middle shields of the coat of arms. The heraldic tent, which rises above the main pieces described, consists of purple velvet, is alternately sprinkled with Prussian eagles and royal crowns and lined and trimmed with ermine . The upper edge of the tent is bordered by a wide, blue, gold-rimmed hoop, under which wreaths adorned with gold and precious stones, braids and tassels emerge. On the ring is written in gold " God with us ", the motto of King Frederick I.

Above the hoop on which twelve golden eagles rest with lowered wings, the top of the tent arches, which, like the helmet, is covered with a, albeit larger, royal crown. The Royal Spanish Spaniard protrudes above this crown and the entire coat of arms. It consists of a silver flag adorned with the Prussian imperial eagle, which is slit from below, and whose flying, gold-bordered tips are adorned with tassels. This flag is attached to a silver crossbar by means of golden rings, the ends of which are closed with royal crowns, and the central golden cord hangs from a rod that is diagonally divided from silver and black, on the tip of which a Prussian eagle ready to fly rests.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So 1873; however in 1817 and still in 1864 "Camin".
  2. ^ Geography and heraldry of the Brandenburg-Prussian monarchy, Maximilian Gritzner, Berlin, 1894

literature

  • Collection of laws for the Royal Prussian States for 1817 No. 3 of February 15, 1817 (pp. 17–28), for 1864 No. 1 of February 3, 1864 (pp. 1–12) and for 1873 No. 28 of September 17, 1873 (pp. 397-411)
  • Rudolf Count v. Stillfried : The title and coat of arms of the Prussian royal family. Berlin 1875.
  • Georg Wilhelm Sante (ed.): Reich and countries, history of the German territories. Vol. I The territories up to the end of the old empire , Vol. II The German states from the Congress of Vienna to the present. Darmstadt 1964.

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