Grumbach (Glan)

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GRUMBACH

State : Rheinland-Pfalz
District (Kreis) : Kusel (until 1972 Birkenfeld)
Verbandsgemeinde : Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein (until 2014 Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken)

Official blazon

German	In Gold ein grüner schräglinker Wellenbalken, belegt mit einem blaubewehrten, -gezungten und -gekrönten roten Löwen.
English	(Glan) No blazon/translation known. Please click here to send your (heraldic !) blazon or translation

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on March 16, 1929.

The arms show the lion of the Wildgrafen and a canting wavy bend (Bach=stream), and were granted in 1929.

The village received city rights by the Wildgrafen in 1318, but the village did not develop in a proper city. The lion already appears in the oldest known seal of the town, which dates from the 16^th century. The wavy bend was added in 1929.

Hupp showed the arms in the 1920s in both versions, with and without the bend:

The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925

Literature: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes; Hupp, O: Kaffee Hag albums, 1920s