Coat of arms of Munich
" Great Seal: brick -colored on a silver background open Stadtmauertor. The roofs of the gate towers gold black banded. Between the tower roofs yellow, red reinforced, rightward, increasing crowned lion. Standing in goal monk with a black, gold-rimmed cowl, flesh-colored face, brown hair, red pointed shoes, holding in his left hand red Eidbuch, right hand with three outstretched fingers oath. Small coat of arms: red on a silver shield with a black base monk, goldumränderter cowl, Eidbuch and shoes, face and hands flesh colored ".
The coat of arms of the City of Munich is out since the 13th century and changed the course of history many times. The coat of arms in its present form as Large and Small coat of arms exists since 1957. Important component of the Munich city coat of arms was up to the time from 1808 to 1818 a monk, since the name of the city of Munich in general of monk is derived.
The monk
The coat of arms with the monk is a canting arms and refers to the name of the city, which was called at the first documentary mention in 1158 as " Munichen ". "Munich " is the Old High German term for monk.
Shown is the monk with a golden bordierten, black cassock, and with hood and red shoes. In his left hand he holds a red book, the right is raised, thumb, index and middle fingers extended. The official interpretation, which is reproduced in the city coat of arms Statutes, provides for the right hand to swear collected, the red book in his left hand should be the Eidbuch the city or the city law book accordingly, which is preserved in a bound in red handwriting from 1365. This interpretation is based on some of Munich's city historian of the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on the sources in the City Archives provides Helmuth steel Eder this interpretation, however, as an error of the 19th century and refers to the Christian-influenced tradition of the city, according to the are to be interpreted as a gesture of blessing and the red book as a book of Gospels the outstretched hand.
The monk as the sole heraldic figure can already be found on a seal from the year 1304 and on the flags of the city since the mid-14th century. In the course of a few centuries, up to the current version from 1957 this has undergone clearly visible changes. Had the monk assumed something childlike traits in the 15th century, set in the 18th and especially the 19th century reinforced a diminutive of the monk to the Münchner Kindl. This designation in 1727 demonstrated for the first time.
History
Medieval Town Seal
The coat of arms of Munich is already detectable by city seal from the years 1239 and 1268. These show a monk's head with a hood in a battlemented gate and an eagle over the gate. The third Munich city seal that was used from 1304 was similar to the still existing today little city arms and showed a simple monk standing figure with raised right hand and a book in his left hand. Since 1323 the city seals were used, which resembled the still existing today Great coat of arms. A fully mapped monk stands in the archway, and instead of the eagle earlier shown a lion rises above the gate. The Golden Lion has the investiture of the Duke Ludwig of Kehl heimer in 1214 with the Rhine Palatinate a symbol of old Bavarian and Palatine Wittelsbach.
Small Seal 1304-1398
Great Seal 1323-1356
Coat of arms after the confirmation by Max I. Joseph
King Max I Joseph gave the city of Munich in 1808 and historicizing city arms with an antique portal, where the crown is. Sitting in the gate is the golden lion, a sword and a shield with the letter " M" holding in the paws represented. Max I. Joseph wanted to set an example as an enlightened monarch and the " monk barbarism " put an end to the coat of arms. The citizenship of the city, however, objected to the complete eradication of this historical reference, and so in 1818 the M was replaced in crest again by the monk's head.
1818-1835
Coat of arms after the confirmation by Ludwig I.
King Ludwig I granted the city in 1834 again her old coat of arms in the form of large and small coat of arms. This gave in their view, the ancient seal again, the small coat of arms, the seal of 1304, the great emblem of the 1323. The coat of arms of 1835 contained as a field color blue, which was corrected in 1865 under Ludwig II by silver. The field color was rarely changed in the rest; for example, was used in the 16th century gold for it.
1865-1936 1949-1957 Great Seal
1865-1936 1949-1957 Small coat of arms
Coat of arms in the time of National Socialism
Only from 1936 to 1945 was on the great seal of the lion again replaced by the eagle, the imperial eagle of the "Third Reich" with a swastika; stood by the Münchner Kindl as a policeman with arms outstretched in front of a gate; the design is by Richard Klein. Once this national socialist version of the coat of arms was abolished after the Second World War, no official coat of arms was established from 1945 to 1948.
Newer Coat of Arms
From 1949 to 1957, there were again both small as well as a large coat of arms. The representations, as they were in effect prior to 1936, were used.
In 1957, both the small and the large coat of arms of the graphic artist Eduard Ege were redesigned. At the same time, the city council took on 17 December 1957 decision to use the large coat of arms no longer for official use, but nurmehr for special representative purposes.
1957 to today Small coat of arms representation used officially
Is valid in each case the blazon and the representation, which is published in the latest valid Stadtwappen statutes. Since 1 January 2003, the city arms Statute applies on 2 December 2002. Official coat of arms do not meet the rules of classical heraldry. On the one hand flesh color is used for the skin and brown for the hair, which is not provided in the classic heraldry. On the other hand, the colors are not always distinct from each other, so the head and the hand. However, this is now no longer crucial, as these rules were used in the Middle Ages distinctness on the battlefield, even over long distances.
Coat of Arms Munich Districts
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Few of today's Munich neighborhoods had prior to their incorporation own coat of arms. Specifically, these were the suburb of Au, the cities and Pasing Schwabing and the municipalities Aubing, Feldmoching, Obermenzing and Untermenzing. The Council Milbertshofens, which in 1910 was to become the city had approved the introduction of a coat of arms on February 16, 1911. This introduction but was postponed initially due to the planned annexation to Munich, by the annexation took place in 1913 they were no longer relevant.
Aubing
Feldmoching
Obermenzing
Pasing
Schwabing
Untermenzing
Milbertshofen (Draft)