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	KEMPTEN Country: Germany State: Bayern District (Kreis): Free urban district (Kreisfreie Stadt) Additions: 1972 Sankt Lorenz 1972 Sankt Mang 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":47.72579999999999955662133288569748401641845703125,"lon":10.3148999999999997356781022972427308559417724609375,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
German	Gespalten; von Schwarz und Silber; vorne am Spalt ein halber goldener Adler, hinten auf grünem Dreiberg ein roter Zinnenturm mit offenem Tor.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on December 12, 1488 and confirmed on January 5, 1819.

Kempten was an Imperial city in medieval times and thus entitled to use the imperial eagle in its arms and seals. The oldest seals, however do not show the eagle. The oldest seal dates from the early 14th century and shows the patron saint of the city at the time, St. Gordianus. Later sources indicate that the shield was horizontally divided from silver and blue. The second seal dates from 1403 and shows St. Hildegard, who was combined with the arms in a later 15^th century seal.

In 1488 Emperor Friedrich III granted the city new arms, a vertically divided shield gold and black, with the imperial eagle in the opposite colours.

In the late 16^th century the city started to use the symbols used on the local coins, an eagle with the letter K on its breast. These arms were used until 1819.

In 1818 the city was combined with the Imperial Abbey Kempten and the new arms showed the imperial eagle from the city arms, and a tower taken from the arms of the Abbey.

Image gallery

The seal from 1343
The arms in a 15th century manuscript
The arms in the late 15th century
The arms in the Armorial Jörg Rügen (1495)
The arms around 1500
The arms in a manuscript +/- 1530
The arms in a manuscript from 1576
The arms in a manuscript from 1584
The arms in a 16th century manuscript
The arms in a 17th century manuscript
The arms by Tyroff (1835)
The arms in Kramer (1841)
The arms of Kempten as shown on a postcard from 1905
Seal from around 1900
The arms in an album from around 1910
The arms in the Abadie albums
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
The arms in an album from 1968

Literature: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes.

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