Alpirsbach

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ALPIRSBACH

State : Baden-Württemberg
District (Kreis) : Freudenstadt
Additions : 1938 Rötenbach; 1971 Reutin; 1974 Ehlenbogen, Reinerzau, Peterzell, Römlinsdorf

Official blazon

(de) In Blau ein wachsender, rechtsgekehrter goldener Abtsstab.

Origin/meaning

The crosier is first used on a seal from 1827. Since 1900 it is used on the arms. Before 1827 the seals of Alpirsbach showed a tree, or a wavy bar with a tree and an arm with an arrow.

The crosier symbolises the fact that the town developed around the monastery founded in 1095. The town was made a city only in 1869.