Coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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Large coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

The coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the national emblem of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern .

In the state coat of arms, the parts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Pomerania and Brandenburg are symbolized by the respective heraldic animals.

Versions

It exists in two versions. The blazon of the large national coat of arms reads: Embraced; Field 1 and 4: In gold, a black bull's head, crowned in gold, with a wide open mouth, silver teeth, a knocked-out red tongue, seven points torn off the neck and silver horns; Field 2: In silver an upright red griffin armed with gold ; Field 3: In silver, a gold armored red eagle with golden clover stems on the Saxen.

Blazon of the small state coat of arms: split, in front in gold a looking, gold crowned black bull's head with a wide open mouth, silver teeth, knocked out red tongue, neck fur torn in seven points and silver horns, behind in silver an upright, gold armored red griffin.

The large four-part coat of arms is carried by the state parliament and the highest state authorities, the small two-part coat of arms by the other state authorities.

Heraldic animals

The Mecklenburg princes initially had a griffin in their seal, but since 1219 the bull's head. Originally probably the head of an aurochs , since then it has been the Mecklenburg family coat of arms almost continuously, which outlasted the dynastic divisions, most recently Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz (until 1934). The two bulls in today's coat of arms indicate these two states.

The griffin stands for Western Pomerania . The Greifenschild has been the coat of arms of the Prussian province of Pomerania since 1880 .

The red Brandenburg eagle on a silver background stands for the parts of the Uckermark that belong to the state and denotes the centuries-old connection between Pomerania and Brandenburg .

history

Coat of arms of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Coat of arms of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was established after the Second World War on the basis of an order from the Soviet military administration in Germany on July 9, 1945. In 1947, the military government pointed out that the order only spoke of the “Mecklenburg administrative region”; the addition "Vorpommern" is therefore not permitted. In the same year, the state parliament gave the state a constitution in which the Mecklenburg state colors (blue-yellow-red), but not a state coat of arms, were specified.

Mecklenburg-Strelitz used a coat of arms from 1921 that showed "the Stargard castle tower, the Mecklenburg buffalo head and the Ratzeburg cross" on blue-yellow-red shields. From the same year, Mecklenburg-Schwerin used a coat of arms that consisted of "a main shield split once and twice with a heart shield" and showed the following in the six fields of the main shield:

  1. in gold a black bull's head with a neck fur (Mecklenburg),
  2. a golden griffin in blue ( Hanseatic City of Rostock ),
  3. above a golden griffin in blue, below a green field framed in silver ( Principality of Schwerin ),
  4. in red a silver cross ( Principality of Ratzeburg ),
  5. in red a silver women's arm ( Reign Stargard ),
  6. in gold a black bull's head without neck fur ( Herrschaft Werle ) and in the heart shield
  7. Heart shield: a division of red over gold ( County Schwerin ).

The Schwerin coat of arms was valid for all of Mecklenburg from 1934.

After Western Pomerania was added to the country, a new coat of arms was sought. The griffin shown came from the Rostock coat of arms. Prime Minister Wilhelm Höcker was personally very committed to a redesign. A first draft, which he presented to Stralsund's Lord Mayor Otto Kortüm in 1945, showed "the buffalo head diagonally above with Mecklenburg colors, diagonally below the griffin with blue and white". Kortüm rejected the draft with the words "you with the cow head up and we down ...".

On September 30, 1948, the state parliament in Schwerin discussed a "law on the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg (...)" (printed matter no. 222). Höcker reported in the consultation on the efforts of the state government. After that, Mecklenburg artists were repeatedly asked for designs, all but two of which were rejected. The draft submitted with the printed matter did not convince Höcker either. In it, the Schwerin coat of arms was extended by a shield base into which a red Pomeranian griffin was carved in silver. The draft was transferred to a committee; there was no further submission to the state parliament.

The small coat of arms that the districts used in their official seals showed the Mecklenburg bull's head due to an announcement on February 18, 1948, and the cities had their coat of arms. A large state coat of arms was not awarded. In 1952 the state of Mecklenburg was divided into three districts.

After German reunification in 1990, the coats of arms described above were established.

See also

literature

  • Norbert Buske : Coat of arms, colors and hymns of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. An explanation of the new national emblems of the country combined with a walk through the history of the two parts of the country illustrated by the development of their coats of arms . With photos by Thomas Helms. Bremen: Ed. Temmen 1993, ISBN 3-86108-202-0
  • Helge bei der Wieden : A state coat of arms for Mecklenburg (-Vorpommern) , Baltic Studies , Volume 64, Verlag Christoph von der Ropp, Göttingen 1978

Web links

Commons : Wappen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State portal MV ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mecklenburg-vorpommern.eu
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mecklenburg-vorpommern.eu
  3. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg 1947, p. 14 f.
  4. ↑ Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Official Gazette, 1921, p. 127
  5. ^ Government Gazette 1922, p. 313 f.
  6. ↑ Helge bei Der Wieden: A state coat of arms for Mecklenburg (-Vorpommern) , Baltic Studies , Volume 64, Verlag Christoph von der Ropp, Göttingen 1978