Coat of arms of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district
The coat of arms of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district is derived from the coat of arms of the former Berlin district of Friedrichshain, which was only designed in 1991 .
The coat of arms was awarded to the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district on October 7, 2003 by the Berlin State Senate .
Blazon
“In a silver shield with a blue wave shield base, covered with four silver wave threads, a red tinned bridge, which is divided into three even arches by two pointed and kneaded towers, which are covered with battlements, intermediate roofs, ledges and black loopholes and pointed windows. The two outer arches are shown as half arches. A red three-tower wall crown rests on the shield, the central tower of which is covered with the Berlin coat of arms. "
History and meaning
Most of today's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district belonged to the urban area of Berlin as early as 1861. There was no independent municipality or city of Friedrichshain or Kreuzberg . The districts and at the same time also districts emerged with the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920. Kreuzberg was first called Hallesches Tor when the district was formed and was named in 1921 after the highest elevation in the district, the Kreuzberg . This owes its name to the cross on the national monument designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the Wars of Liberation .
The southern parts of the former suburbs Friedrichstadt and Luisenstadt, which in turn had their own coats of arms, belong to the area of today's Kreuzberg.
Friedrichstadt
The Friedrichstadt was in 1692 as the third Neustadt west of Friedrichswerder of Frederick I founded. However, it did not receive its name until 1706. After not even another four years, on January 1, 1710, it became part of the “Royal Capital and Residence”.
The coat of arms of Friedrichstadt shows in a silver shield a gold-armored eagle split by black and red. On the left the red Brandenburg eagle and on the right the black Prussian eagle.
Luisenstadt
On April 4, 1802, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. to assign the name Luisenstadt to the suburb of Cöpenick , after his wife, Queen Luise . From then on Luisenstadt also had a coat of arms. The coat of arms of Luisenstadt is divided and shows a growing red Brandenburg golden-armored eagle in the upper silver field. The eagle's chest is covered with a blue shield containing the golden capital letter "L". The "L" stands for the name of the district. The lower blue field shows a golden tinged city wall rising in perspective to the right with an open city gate. The city wall is windowed.
Friedrichshain district
The Friedrichshain district introduced the first coat of arms in 1935 without the approval of the Berlin Senate. This coat of arms, with a split shield, shows the red-white (silver) -red banner of Berlin with the upright striding bear in the upper silver-tinged field . In the lower blue field a silver carp with golden fins swimming from (heraldically) left to right. The upper part of the coat of arms with the Berlin banner stands for the part of the Friedrichshain district, which was part of Berlin before 1920. The lower part is the Stralau coat of arms . The rural community of Stralau was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920 and incorporated into the Friedrichshain district. The coat of arms symbolized the two urban areas merged to form a district.
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The district was officially awarded a coat of arms in 1987 for the 750th anniversary of Berlin. The design for this coat of arms comes from Detlef Jahn from Berlin. The coat of arms is split in gold and silver. The right golden field shows with the corner tower and lantern bearer the partial view of Karl-Marx-Allee , one of the main arteries of Berlin, running through the district . In the left silver field the upright striding, red-tongued Berlin bear looking to the right, a black-handled spade with a silver handle and a leaf plunged into its paws. The coat of arms was intended to symbolize the reconstruction work that had been carried out since the first post-war years in the district that was badly destroyed by the Second World War .
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After the reunification of Germany and thus also Berlin, the coat of arms of the Friedrichshain district was redesigned in 1991. The coat of arms was awarded to the district on March 23, 1993 by the Berlin Senate. The design of the coat of arms was based on the coat of arms from 1935. The coat of arms shows the red Oberbaumbrücke in a silver shield on a blue shield base . The silver carp of the Stralau coat of arms can be found in the base of the shield. The crown of the wall connecting all districts with Berlin rests on the coat of arms . The Oberbaumbrücke, which was extensively renovated after the reunification of Berlin, has since become the new landmark of the Friedrichshain district.
Kreuzberg district
The coat of arms of the Kreuzberg district was awarded to the district by the Berlin Senate on July 23, 1956. As early as 1949, the district office had adopted an informal coat of arms, the motif of which was the Schinkel cross. However, since this coat of arms did not meet the requirements in artistic and heraldic terms, it was rejected by the Senate when it applied for the award in 1954. Thereupon the then district mayor Willy Kressmann commissioned the heraldist Ottfried Neubecker, who also designed the current coat of arms of Berlin , to design a new coat of arms for the district. This coat of arms was approved by the District Assembly on June 27, 1956 and approved by the Berlin Senate on July 23, 1956.
The coat of arms is split in silver and black. It shows a curved tip that ends in a paw cross. The right black half of this heraldic figure in the right silver field and the left silver half walled in black in the left black field. The crown of the wall connecting all districts with Berlin rests on the coat of arms. The colors black and white (silver) reflect the Prussian colors. The masonry is intended to indicate that the district was badly destroyed in World War II and that only half of it was rebuilt in 1956, the year the coat of arms was awarded. In relation to the district name Kreuzberg, the cross is understood as a motif of a talking coat of arms.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district
The creation of a new coat of arms was commissioned for the new Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district created as part of the district merger on January 1, 2001. In February 2002 a draft of the district was approved by the Senate, but since the district assembly had not yet voted on this draft, it could not be approved. This coat of arms largely corresponded to the Friedrichshain coat of arms. The bridge was changed a little and a black paw-cross-shaped high cross for the Kreuzberg district was added to hover over the central arch of the bridge. However, this draft was not approved, so that the coat of arms had to be revised again.
On October 7, 2003, the current coat of arms was awarded to the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district by the Berlin Senate. The description ( blazon ) see above . The blue wave base of the sign symbolizes the Spree, which on the one hand divides the two districts, and the red bridge symbolizes the Oberbaumbrücke, which on the other hand connects the two districts again.
Coats of arms of the districts and locations
Stralau
Stralau had a modern color seal with a swimming carp in the seal field and the inscription "DORF-SIEGEL STRALOW". The coat of arms of the former rural community Stralau shows in a blue shield a silver carp with golden fins swimming from (heraldically) left to right. Stralau's location on a peninsula between the Spree and Rummelsburger See is expressed by the blue tinging of the sign. The carp is symbolic of fishing, which was the main livelihood of the population at the time (mostly fishermen ). This coat of arms symbolizes in a very simple way that Stralau is an old fishing village.
The coat of arms lost its validity with the incorporation of Stralau into Greater Berlin in 1920 and disappeared from official use.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Awarding of district coats of arms to Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf , press releases of the State of Berlin, October 7, 2003
- ↑ New coats of arms: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf ( memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Rathaus Aktuell, Berlin, October 7, 2003
- ↑ Source: National emblem of Berlin - district coat of arms
