Volkskrone
The Volkskrone (English: People's Crown) is an heraldic crown introduced in Germany after World War I. When the German monarchies were abolished following the defeat in the war, this was created as a "republican" crown to replace the old crowns and coronets of rank in the arms of the German Länder, the states of the German federal republic.[1][2] As designed by the German heraldic authority Otto Hupp in 1919, the crown, also known as a Laubkrone (leaf crown), consists of five vine leaves on a jewelled rim.[3][4] During the Weimar Republic all of the German states adopted versions of the Volkskrone.[1][2] After World War II only Baden-Württemberg,[5] Bavaria,[6] Hesse[7] and Rhineland-Palatinate[8] chose to retain its use, while Berlin combined it with a mural crown.[9]
Lesser coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg with a local adaptation of the Volkskrone
Lesser coat of arms of Bavaria with a Volkskrone
Coat of arms of Berlin with a hybrid crown combining elements of both a Volkskrone and a mural crown
Coat of arms of Hesse with a Volkskrone
Coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate with a Volkskrone
See also
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Media related to Volkskrone at Wikimedia Commons
References
[edit]- 1 2 Gert Oswald: Lexikon der Heraldik, Bibliographiches Institut/Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1984, ISBN 3411021497, p. 410 (online version)
- 1 2 Harry D. Schurdel: Flaggen & Wappen Deutschland, Battenberg Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3894411368, pp. 97, 105, 138, 165
- ↑ Otto Hupp: "Zu den neuen Staatswappen". In: Wider die Schwarmgeister! Dritter Teil. München 1919. pp. 3 ff.
- ↑ Otto Hupp: Bayerische Staatszeitung. 2 March 1919. p. 3.
- ↑ Beteiligungsportal.baden-wuerttemberg.de: Gesetz über das Wappen des Landes Baden-Württemberg (WappG) Vom 3. Mai 1954: "Im kleinen Landeswappen ruht auf dem Schild eine Blattkrone (Volkskrone)."
- ↑ "Staatssymbole". www.stmi.bayern.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ↑ "Das Hessische Landeswappen". innen.hessen.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ↑ "Wappen und Landessiegel . Internetportal des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz". www.rlp.de. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ↑ "Das Landeswappen". www.berlin.de (in German). 2025-05-06. Archived from the original on 2025-05-18. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
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