Coat of arms of the city of Kölleda

Kölleda; Thuringia
Blazon
	“In silver, St. Wippertus with staff and grapes; including a coat of arms with three-leaved oak leaves on a black background. "
Basic data
Changes:	after 1990

The coat of arms of the city of Kölleda is next to the flag the official emblem of Kölleda .

Blazon

“In silver, St. Wippertus with staff and grapes; including a coat of arms with three-leaved oak leaves on a black background. "

history

It is not known when the city of Kölleda had its coat of arms in its present form. There is evidence that Kölleda did not have a coat of arms around 1900, but a Prussian eagle on the city seal . There are documents with a city seal from the late Middle Ages.

Today's coat of arms shows St. Wippertus , the patron saint of the city. The grapes in his hand symbolize a story of the saint . After a mass, the necessary mass wine is said to have been missing. Wippertus is said to have pressed a freshly picked grape in his hand and filled the goblet with fully fermented wine. The coat of arms with the oak leaves under St. Wippertus comes from the coat of arms of the Counts von Werthern , who obtained the rights to the city in 1519.

The design of the coat of arms was changed several times, most recently by a new drawing after the fall of the Wall in 1990. For example, Wippertus was sometimes shown with a goblet full of grapes instead of grapes. Today the original form, which Otto Hupp also documented around 1920, is used again.

The old variant of the coat of arms with a chalice full of grapes instead of grapes is used today as the city logo together with the word Stadt Kölleda .