Salzburg coat of arms

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Salzburg state coat of arms

The Salzburg coat of arms of the province of Salzburg is, according to the country's Constitutional Law 1999 (LGBl.. 25/1999) Article 8 (1)

“The historical coat of arms. It consists of a crowned split shield : on the right in gold an upright black lion turned to the right , on the left in red a silver bar ”.

description

The coat of arms is crowned with the prince's hat . The prince's hat consists of a five-lobed ermine cuff with a purple hood, on which there are three beaded clasps, with the golden orb in the center. The prince's hat is reminiscent of the former Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg. From 1806 to 1909, as a provisional part of the Austrian monarchy (Kaiserthum Österreich), the coat of arms was crowned with the ducal hat .

The silver bar in red is - this is noteworthy - not the shield of the Babenbergs and Habsburgs . Its origin is unclear. The origin of the coat of arms is either traced back to the Spanheimer Philipp von Spanheim , Archbishop of Salzburg (1247–1257), or to the Staufer . However, if the coat of arms goes back to Philipp von Spanheim, then it could originally go back to the Eppensteiners and thus to common roots with the Babenberg bindenschild, which in its origins goes back to the Eppensteiner , just like the lion to the original lion coat of arms of the Babenbergs, the possibly related to the Staufer lion coat of arms. Philipp von Spanheim's brother, Duke Ulrich III. von Carinthia , also from the Spanheimer dynasty, in 1246, when the Babenberg inheritance (Austria) had become free as a result of the extinction of the Babenbergs, gave up his original coat of arms, a black panther on a silver background, in order to allegedly claim the Babenberg inheritance to be expressed in a suitable new coat of arms. His father, Duke Bernhard von Carinthia from Spanheim , was the son of Agnes from Babenberg , a daughter of Heinrich II. Of Austria and sister of Duke Heinrich I of Mödling. The new coat of arms was split and showed the front of the Babenberg lion in its three number (Babenberg line Mödling), behind the Austrian shield, as it had taken over by the Babenbergs. Later, the Meinhardiner, as the new dukes of Carinthia, adopted this coat of arms as their family coat of arms. It is possible that Philipp von Spanheim, who himself continued the panther shield, had placed the simple Babenberg lion in the front half of the Salzburg coat of arms in order to distinguish it from his brother Ulrich's coat of arms.

Salzburg state flag

  • Arms of Crown Land Salzburg in the days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy Austria Hungary

  • Lion with the Salzburg coat of arms at the festival hall

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State press office: Coat of arms of the State of Salzburg

literature

  • F. Zaisberger, N. Pfeiffer: Salzburg municipal coat of arms . Salzburg 1985, ISBN 3-85380-048-3 .
  • Peter Diem: The symbols of Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00594-9 .

Web links

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