Coat of arms of Saarland

Coat of arms of Saarland 1947-1956

Coat of Arms of the Historical Society for the Saar area of 1856 as a template of today's coat of arms

The state coat of arms counts as well as the national flag to the emblems of the Saarland. It was introduced by the Law on the coat of arms of Saarland of 9 July 1956, with effect from 1 January 1957 to the date of accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany. The guide coat of arms is subject to the state authorities of the Saarland. Use without permission is an offense.

• 3.1 1919-1935
• 3.2 1947-1956

Coat of arms

Coat of Arms Description

The official description of the emblem in this Act is as follows:

" The country's coat of arms has the shape of a semicircle gevierten shield. In which:

• Top right: a gold-crowned and rotgezungten silver lion on a blue field, sprinkled with silver crosses;
• Top left: a red cross in polished silver field;
• Bottom right: three a red bar occupying, gestümmelte silver eagle in a golden field;
• Bottom left: a rotgekrönten, rotbewehrten and rotgezungten golden lion in the black box. "

Importance

The country's coat of arms shows the symbols of the four major principalities which had before 1789 or 1815 large parts of the territory of present-day state:

• The silver lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken, the field strewn with silver crosses the Counts of Saarbrücken- COMMERCY; the silver lion should not be confused with the golden lion of the Counts and Princes of Nassau- Saarbrücken, see also the coat of arms of the regional association Saarbrücken;
• The red, polished cross of the Electorate of Trier;
• The oblique beams with the three Alerions from the arms of the Duchy of Lorraine;
• The Palatinate Lion of the former Duchy of Pfalz- Zweibrücken.

The coat of arms was designed by the Provincial Archives of Saarbrücken, which it used the seal of the Historical Society for the Saar area of 1856 as a template, with only marginal variations (there are no such as the silver crosses) used the four same part coat of arms, but in a different arrangement.

Standard

The standard ( " car flag " ) of the two most senior politicians of the state, the President of Parliament and the Prime Minister, bears the coat of arms.

Coat of arms

The Saarland symbol, also called signet or logo may be used in contrast to the official coat of arms, of all citizens (ie anyone) cost and without authorization, to bring the belonging and connectedness with the Saarland expressed. It was made ​​to the general public. Its use is costly and approval. The symbol may be in an application does not change / alienated or integrated seamlessly into other, your own layouts. It is a stylized version of the country's coat of arms.

Old coat of arms

1919-1935

In the Saar, which had been created by the Versailles Treaty, the Government Commission on July 28, 1920, adopted the following coat of arms:

• Top right: a silver train wheel with crossed hammers in the black box from the coat of arms of St. Ingbert;
• Top left: the red rose in a silver box of St. John from the coat of arms of Saarbrücken;
• Bottom right: the rising golden sun over blue clouds in the silver box from the coat of arms of Saarlouis;
• Bottom left: the silver lion with four crosses in the blue field, the lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken from the coat of arms of Saarbrücken.

The corresponding flag showed the colors blue, white ( heraldic: silver) and black.

1947-1956

According to Article 61 of the Constitution of the Saarland December 15, 1948 was a coat of arms in line with the new national flag, a white Scandinavian cross on a red background blue created. It provides a shield is a red, four arrows unit bridge crown, the shield is quartered by a silver cross and the two upper fields in blue and the lower ones are kept in red.