Blazon : "In gold, a striding, black, red-tongued and red-armored lion."
Justification of the coat of arms: The lion originally comes from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Jülich (later Duchy of Jülich-Berg and United Duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg ). In the municipal coats of arms, the heraldic animal symbolizes a historical bond with the Duchy of Jülich. Through the Jülich (later Jülich and Bergische) rule until 1795, the coat of arms with the lion spread over the towns and communities of the territory.
In addition to the Dutch provinces of Limburg and Gelderland, the following table contains the German regional authorities and public corporations in the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate that have or had the Jülich lion in their coat of arms. Today's area in which the coat of arms is used is mainly limited to the core area of the oldest territory of the Duchy of Jülich and the acquisitions of areas between 1219 and 1511 and later.
The following coats of arms, which are listed in the table, differ in the color scheme from the color scheme specified in the blazon or are shown differently.
1City region Aachen: A striding lion. Due to the available space in the main shield of the coat of arms, no other option is possible.
2Alsdorf: blue lions on a yellow background. The coat of arms was designed by Wolfgang Pagenstecher and shows the lion as the heraldic animal of Goswin von Ailstorp . The color scheme shows that the city belongs to the Duchy of Jülich.
3Birgel: Red lions on a white background. It is the coat of arms of the von Birgel family , hereditary marshals of the Duchy of Jülich.
4th Froitzheim: Yellow lion on a black background.
5Geilenkirchen: Yellow lion on a blue background. Until November 29, 1972, the coat of arms consisted of the two-tailed Heinsberg lion in the colors of the Duchy of Jülich, in which Geilenkirchen was an office.
6thTeveren: Red lion on a yellow background. The colors of the nobles of Teveren with the lion as a sign of belonging to the Duchy of Jülich.
8thWesseling: Red lion on a white background. Nieder-Wesseling was a fiefdom of the Palatinate from 1233 under Jülich bailiwick. On the Wesselingen jury seals of 1345 and 1385 and 1575, it was not the Bergische lion, which was always double-tailed at that time, that was depicted, but the single-tailed lion of Jülich.
Formerly official coats of arms
The following table lists municipal coats of arms that are no longer used officially. The year of the dissolution of the administrative unit bearing the coat of arms is indicated in brackets after the place name or area.
Klemens Stadler , Otto Hupp : German coat of arms. Federal Republic of Germany . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen (1964–1971).
Robert Steimel: Rhenish city arms. Their derivation from country coats of arms and seals. For friends of home and young people . Ana-Verlag u. a., Berlin a. a. 1948.
Hubert de Vries: Wapens van de Nederlanden. The historical ontwikkeling of the heraldic symbols from Nederland, België, hun provincies en Luxemburg . Ed .: Jan Mets. Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90-5330-103-8 .
Renier Vroomen: 'Wapengekletter' in Zuid-Limburg . In: Limburg van Mook tot Eijsden. Jaarboek . 1983, p.124-131 .
Individual references and references
↑ Renier Vroomen: , Wapengekletter 'in South Limburg . In: Limburg van Mook tot Eijsden. Jaarboek . 1983, p.124-131 .
↑ Irmgard Hantsche: Atlas for the history of the Lower Rhine . In: Dieter Geuenich (Ed.): Series of publications of the Niederrhein Academy . tape4 . Peter Pomp, Bottrop – Essen 1999, ISBN 3-89355-200-6 , 11. The territorial development of the Duchy of Jülich, p.38 .
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