People's Crown

People's Crown

The people's crown was introduced in Germany after the abolition of the monarchy as a replacement for the monarchical crowns above the coat of arms .

The rank crowns above the coat of arms shields used until then were replaced by a flat crown of leaves extending over the entire upper edge of the shield. The coats of arms of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Berlin , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate show this crown. The crown is also described as "a crown adorned with vine leaves" or called "crown of leaves". In 1923 it was first used in the Bavarian state coat of arms as the embodiment of popular sovereignty.

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  Small coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg with a leaf crown and the three "Staufer Lions"

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  Small Bavarian national coat of arms

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  Coat of arms of Berlin with a foliage crown

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  State coat of arms of Hesse with a crown of leaves

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  State coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate with a people's crown made of vine leaves

See also : wall crown

literature

• People's Crown in the Heraldry Wiki
• Annemarie Liebler: History of the Government of Lower Bavaria. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8316-0836-2 , p. 206.