Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal

BAD SANKT LEONHARD IM LAVANTTAL Country : Austria State : Kärnten District  : Wolfsberg Additions  : 1964 Theißing Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":46.9626999999999981127984938211739063262939453125,"lon":14.789300000000000778754838393069803714752197265625,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon

German	In Gold der Benediktinerabt St. Leonhard mit Kranztonsur und schwarzem Habit, den silbernen Abtsstab in der Rechten, ein blaues Buch mit Goldschnitt in der Linken, eine schwarze Kette mit gebrochenem Endglied über den rechten Arm gehängt, aus einem goldenen Schild wachsend, der einen aufgerichteten schwarzen, rotbezungten und -bewehrten Löwen von einem silbernen Schrägrechtsfaden überlegt zeigt.
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Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on April 29, 1970.

The main charge is the holy abbot, St. Leonhard, with his attributes, crosier, book and chain. The small escutcheon in front of the saint is the arms of the Hochstift (Free State) of Bamberg (Germany). For centuries, the bishop was the lord of the market-borough of St. Leonhard and the surrounding lands.

The oldest seal of the city is known since April 22, 1391 and shows only the patron saint, not the small shield. The oldest known seal with the Bamberg arms dates from 1486. Later seals nearly all show the small shield, even though some seals are known without.

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  The seal from 1486

Literature : Deuer, 2006

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