Coat of arms of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district
The coat of arms of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district was created from the previous coats of arms of the Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf districts .
The coat of arms was awarded on September 4, 2001 by the Berlin Senate .
Blazon
"Under the silver-blue split shield head, in it three lilies in confused colors, in gold a tinned blue castle gate with open black portcullis, the side towers with domed roofs, the central building with a hipped roof, which is decorated with two averted flags at the top, the right black silver, the left split silver-red. The side towers are each covered with a shield: on the right, in silver, a golden crowned and armored black eagle with golden shamrock stems on the wings and on the chest covered with the golden monogram FR, overlaid by a golden royal crown; on the left a silver jumping horse. A red three-tower wall crown rests on the shield, the central tower of which is covered with the Berlin coat of arms. "
history
Charlottenburg
As in 1705 by Frederick I , the castle Lutzen castle and the castle opposite settlement in Charlottenburg renamed the town charter was awarded, the city also got a coat of arms. For the coat of arms, the depiction of the coat of arms first seen on the Charlottenburg flag in 1704 was adopted. The coat of arms shows a floating blue tinned castle gate with a raised black portcullis in the passage of the central building. The side towers have domed roofs and the central building has a hipped roof. The hipped roof is covered with two flags waving outwards. The left flag is silver-red and the right one black-silver. The towers are each covered with a coat of arms. The right shield is the coat of arms of Prussia and the left shield is the coat of arms of Lower Saxony ( House of Hanover ). The coat of arms of Prussia in the form of 1704 shows a red-tongued and gold-armored black eagle in a silver shield, crowned with the royal crown. The eagle bears the crowned golden name "FR" on its chest. Its wings are covered with golden clover stems. The coat of arms of Lower Saxony shows a jumping silver horse in a red shield. But also the flags symbolize the countries with their colors. Black and white for Prussia and white and red for Lower Saxony (House of Hanover). The two coats of arms are intended to commemorate the founders of Charlottenburg. To King Friedrich I in Prussia and to his wife Sophie Charlotte of Hanover , who was the namesake of the city and the castle.
There were also several different forms of representation of the coat of arms. In the depiction of Otto Hupp , the Prussian eagle looks to the left and thus turns its head towards the jumping horse. This form of representation is common with alliance coats of arms.
At the beginning of the 19th century, seals surrounded the castle with a beehive and a lyre . The beehive was supposed to symbolize the hard work of the Charlottenburgers. In addition, a second Prussian eagle was added above the castle.
Wilmersdorf
Wilmersdorf emerged from a village that belonged to the Lords of Wilmersdorff . The von Wilmersdorff family, which died out in 1802, had to give up their property in 1799. The development of the place was very hesitant over the years. At the beginning of the 20th century , the place had grown into a town and received town charter in 1906. 4 years later, the city was given a coat of arms, which was derived from the family coat of arms of those of Wilmersdorff and thus refers to the origin of the place name. The coat of arms shows a shield embroidered in blue and silver. In the first blue field there is a silver lily and in the second silver field there is a blue lily. Below is a lily split by blue and silver, the blue half of which lies in the third silver field and the silver half in the fourth blue field.
District coat of arms
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| Wilmersdorf | Charlottenburg |
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When it was incorporated into Berlin in 1920, Charlottenburg gave its name to the Charlottenburg district , and the Charlottenburg coat of arms was adopted as the coat of arms for the district on January 8, 1957. In addition, it was provided with the crown of the wall connecting all districts with Berlin .
Wilmersdorf was also the eponymous district for the new Wilmersdorf district when it was incorporated into Berlin in 1920 . The coat of arms was also adopted for the district on October 3, 1955 and given the crown of the wall.
As part of the district merger on January 1, 2001, the two districts of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf were merged into one district. Since the two former districts each have their own significant historical and cultural past, one district could not simply be integrated into the other. On the one hand this found expression in the new double name district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , and on the other hand the coat of arms of the new district was created from the two individual coats of arms of the former districts. The new coat of arms is divided. While the shield head is split silver-blue and the three lilies change from blue to silver and absorbs the elements of the Wilmersdorfer coat of arms, below is the blue castle gate in the golden field from the Charlottenburg coat of arms in a graphically revised and simplified form.
The meaning of the symbols in the district coats of arms has not changed, it is the same as in the city arms before.
Coats of arms of the districts
Of the other parts of the district, Schmargendorf is the only one that had its own coat of arms. The Schmargendorf coat of arms lost its validity with the incorporation into Greater Berlin and disappeared from official use.
Schmargendorf
Although rural communities should not actually have a coat of arms, Schmargendorf got its own coat of arms on May 9, 1903. The coat of arms is divided diagonally to the left. Above in the silver field is a growing gold-armored red deer and below in the blue field is a silver lily. The two halves of the coat of arms symbolize the two families that Schmargendorf once owned. The stag is taken from the coat of arms of the von Podewils family and the lily of those von Wilmersdorff , who had acquired shares in Schmargendorf in the 14th century .
See also
literature
- Heinz Machatscheck: When the heraldic bear was born . Berlin-Information, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7442-0005-1 .
- Werner Vogel: Berlin and its coat of arms. Ullstein, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-550-07818-8 .
