Coat of arms of Bern

The coats of arms and flags of Canton, the former administrative district and the city of Bern are identical and show as a canting arms upwards border in golden street bears the heraldic figure.

The earliest known uses of the bear as an emblem of the city of Bern is a town seal of 1224, showing a heraldic upstream border to the right bear with raised left front paw as well as coins of 1228. As the oldest preserved colored representation of the current coat of arms applies a set plate from the late 14th century.

• 2.1 Adaptations of the Bernese coat of arms and flag of the Bernese

Blasonierungen

The official blazon reads: In a golden red right oblique beams, covered with a border black bear with red claws.

Another common Blazon found in mill man: In a golden red oblique beams, covered with a rotbewehrten black bear with a red tongue.

It is understood that the bear must be male and that his throat open with the lined tongue has to emphasize the fortification. In the blazon in mill man, this is clearly expressed.

The coat of arms of the canton of Bern wears a crown sovereignty, the coat of arms of the city of Bern, a mural crown. The coat of arms of the former administrative district of Bern appeared without additional motif.

Colors

The Ethics colors are red and black. Yellow ( or gold) is not among the Bernese able colors.

The drafted by the State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern and applicable to the cantonal administration " appearance of the Canton of Bern " defines the red as follows:

• CMYK ( four-color ): C0 / M100 / Y100 / K0
• Pantone: Pantone 032 C or U

History

The city of Bern was founded in 1191 by Duke Berchtold V of Zahringen. After the founding legend, he the city after the first killed in the hunt in the territory of the future city animal - have named - a bear. Therefore, the Bear tribe as an emblem. Historically, the Bernese coat of arms is a so-called canting arms, a coat of arms thus illustrating the associated name. According to the chronicler Conrad Just Inger was the emblem of the city of Bern to around 1300 out of a black, according ( heraldic ) right up border bears on silver background. The later chroniclers Bendicht Tschachtlan and Heinrich Dittlinger took this in their chronicles.

Just Inger led to change the colors back to the lost of the Bernese Battle of the Schosshalde of 1289, in which a Bernese to have saved a piece of the conquered by the enemy banner that had been amended it. The chroniclers of the 16th century have explained the change in two different ways. After Valerius Anshelm the change should be done from Austria by order of the victorious Duke Rudolf II, by Aegidius Tschudi, the red color comes from the blood with which the banner should have been stained, back and now showed a bear on a red background, according to John stump with silver Street, which was later changed as a sign of freedom in a golden time being.

The oldest description of today's Bernese coat of arms supplies obtained in the Just Ingersoll Chronicle called Guglerlied of about 1375; it states in the initial stanza:

At least from there learned the crest Berns no change. With the separation of Berne and the canton of Bern 1831/32 the coat of arms of the city and Republic of Berne canton and city coat of arms and 1944, as the coat of arms in the districts and municipalities in the canton of Bern were imposed, even to the insignia of the consular district of Bern.

The colors red and yellow ( heraldic: gold) are also found in the coat of arms of the Dukes of Zahringen. The Zähringerplatz cities Braeunlingen, Neuenburg and Rheinfelden also cause this " Zähringen " or " Baden " colors in the coat of arms. However, it is not to show that these colors are directly related to the arms of the city and canton of Bern: So there are also Zähringerplatz cities, the colors do not occur in their coat of arms red and yellow, as Burgdorf, Freiburg, Fribourg and other.

The Bernese flag of the Ancien Régime military, which is often encountered in addition to or instead of the canton flag shows a continuous white cross on a in the livery colors red and black mottled background. This flag was orderly in 1703 in the Bernese militias. Their use within the military was gradually reduced with the advent of the Swiss flag, and finally in 1865 also set at the last units of the militia. The civic community Bern the flamed flag as the official banner.

The Bernese coat of arms is in its older form also the emblem of the city founded by the Bernese patrician Christoph von Graffenried 1710 New Bern, North Carolina in the United States of America. In addition, the ice hockey club SC Bern bears the colors and the head of the bear in the logo.

Adaptations of the Bernese coat of arms and flag of the Bernese

Flag of the Bernese Oberland

Town Seal Ittigen, same colors showing

Logo of SC Bern