Coat of arms of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district
The coat of arms of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district was designed from a heraldically balanced combination of motifs from the two former district coats of arms of Steglitz and Zehlendorf .
The coat of arms was awarded on March 25, 2003 by the Berlin Senate .
Blazon
- “In gold a green pine with a black trunk on a green ground, underneath a silver corrugated shield base, above in the shield head a floating red armored and tongued black eagle head. 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
Steglitz
The rural community of Steglitz , first mentioned as a village in 1242 , was the first rural community in Prussia to be awarded a coat of arms by decree of October 24, 1887. Other rural communities already had a coat of arms, these were designed according to the existing seals of the communities and were not officially awarded. The draft for the Steglitz coat of arms was created by the privy councilor and heraldist Maximilian Gritzner . In the justification for the request to carry a coat of arms with the Minister of the Interior, it says: "[...] the local town has already reached a population of 8500 people [...] and also indicated the use of a coat of arms to the intelligence that emerged from the position of the local residents appeared [...]. "
The coat of arms shows two red continuous webs with four notches in a silver shield. The bridges are raised by a red-tongued and reinforced black eagle's head. The red bars are taken from the family coat of arms of the von Steglitz family in Altmark. The founding of the village is attributed to the family. The head of the imperial eagle was to be understood as a tribute to Kaiser Wilhelm I , through whom the award took place. In addition, the imperial eagle was intended to document the proximity of Steglitz to the imperial capital at that time. It should also be stated that Steglitz was a royal domain for a long time .
Former district of Steglitz
The Steglitz district , which was formed in 1920 with the formation of Greater Berlin and existed until 2001, was given its own coat of arms on April 12, 1956. As with most of Berlin's districts, not only the name of the district was adopted for the former district of Steglitz, but also the coat of arms of the rural community of Steglitz. It was adopted unchanged as the district coat of arms and provided with a red three-tower wall crown , the middle tower of which is covered with the Berlin coat of arms. The crown of the wall symbolically connects all districts with Berlin and with each other.
Zehlendorf
The rural community of Zehlendorf adopted a coat of arms by resolution of July 24th, 1907. However, the coat of arms was not recognized by the Prussian Minister of the Interior , since rural communities were not considered eligible for coats of arms . The municipal administration has nevertheless used the motif of this design as a seal. Since this seal was well received by the population, the coat of arms was also adopted.
The coat of arms of Zehlendorf shows a green pine tree with a brown trunk in a golden shield over a silver wave on a red three-mountain. The top of the pine is accompanied by two six-pointed red stars. The trunk is covered by a bar set in two rows of red and silver and at the bottom accompanied by two outwardly inclined green sea leaves emerging from the water on long stalks.
The former lordship of the Cistercian monastery Lehnin is symbolized by the bar. It is taken from the coat of arms of the monastery, which shows a slanting bar carved out of silver and red in a black shield. It is considered to be the coat of arms of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux . The Brandenburg pine symbolizes the abundance of forests and the foot of the wave shield with the sea leaves symbolizes the many lakes in the area of the municipality.
Former district of Zehlendorf
The Zehlendorf district, which existed from 1920 to 2001, received its coat of arms on December 3, 1956. In the Zehlendorf district, the coat of arms of the district that gave it its name was also adopted with some changes. The two red stars were omitted from the coat of arms for the district. The true-to-life depiction of the coat of arms motifs that was customary at the end of the 19th and early 20th century was revised and presented in a heraldic style. The pine and the base of the corrugated shield symbolize the abundance of forests and water in the entire district, to which parts of the Wannsee also belong. The coat of arms was provided with a red three-tower wall crown , the middle tower of which is covered with the Berlin coat of arms. The top of the wall connects all districts with Berlin and with each other.
Steglitz-Zehlendorf district
The two former neighboring districts of Steglitz and Zehlendorf were merged into one district with the district merger on January 1, 2001. Since the two former districts each have their own 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 of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district and, on the other, a new coat of arms had to be found that does justice to both former districts. The new coat of arms was created from a heraldically balanced combination of motifs from the two former district coats of arms.
The new district coat of arms shows in a golden shield a flat green mountain above a silver corrugated shield base. On the mountain is a green pine with a black trunk. A floating red-tongued and red-armored black eagle head above the jaw in the head of the shield. The jaws and the base of the corrugated shield are taken from the Zehlendorf district coat of arms. Also in the new coat of arms they symbolize the forest and water wealth of the district. The eagle motif is taken from the Steglitz district coat of arms and represents its part. The Steglitz people perceive the eagle's head as a particularly characteristic and positive symbol of Steglitz and should therefore not be missing in the new coat of arms.
Coats of arms of the districts
Of the rural communities and manor districts that were incorporated into the districts of Steglitz and Zehlendorf when Greater Berlin was formed in 1920, only the rural communities of Lankwitz and Lichterfelde had their own coat of arms apart from the two eponymous rural communities . The coats of arms of the rural communities lost their validity with the incorporation into Greater Berlin and disappeared from official use.
Lankwitz
The coat of arms of Lankwitz is designed according to an old court seal of the Lehnschulzen, administrator of a lent country estate. The seal picture showed three ears of wheat and a helmet, topped with a growing lion. The coat of arms, adopted by the municipal council on November 6, 1913, shows three golden ears of corn sprouting from a stalk on a shield divided by gold and blue by tin cuts. In the upper field there is a growing red-tongued and red-armored blue lion. The ears of wheat symbolize that the land in the municipality is mainly arable land. The blue wall created optically by the tin cut symbolizes the protective city wall of Berlin.
Lichterfelde
The first draft of the coat of arms for Lichterfelde was presented in 1918. The design shows under a blue shield head with two gold stars, in a silver field a blue cross brook. However, political events that year prevented the draft from being adopted. The later adopted coat of arms shows in a shield divided by red and silver, three burning golden candles rising from a blue stream. The candles, also called “lights”, in the “field” are motifs of a talking coat of arms . The blue brook symbolizes the bank that used to flow past Lichterfelde. The three candles stand for the three parts of the rural community of Groß-Lichterfelde : the village of Lichterfelde, the village of Giesensdorf and the villa colonies .
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 .
Web links
- The district coat of arms of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on Berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ^ The coats of arms of the Berlin districts. National emblem of the state of Berlin . Senate Department for the Interior and Sport, Berlin.de, accessed on December 24, 2016.
