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The oldest known seal for the town dates from 1508 and already shows a lion on a bridge. The bridge (Brücke) is a canting element, the lion is the lion if the Pfalz, in which the town is situated. All later seals and images have shown the same composition, but the lion has sometimes been shown without crown (as shown below by Hupp from the 1920s) and the colours have differed widely during the centuries. | The oldest known seal for the town dates from 1508 and already shows a lion on a bridge. The bridge (Brücke) is a canting element, the lion is the lion if the Pfalz, in which the town is situated. All later seals and images have shown the same composition, but the lion has sometimes been shown without crown (as shown below by [[Otto Hupp|Hupp]] from the 1920s) and the colours have differed widely during the centuries. | ||
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BRUCK IN DER OBERPFALZ
State : Bayern
District (Kreis) : Schwandorf (until 1973 Roding)
Additions : 1946 Mappach, Mögendorf, Vorderthürn; 1971 Schöngras, Sollbach
Official blazon
In Blau über silbernen Wellen eine goldene Holzbrücke, auf der ein rot gekrönter und rot bewehrter goldener Löwe schreitet.
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on
The oldest known seal for the town dates from 1508 and already shows a lion on a bridge. The bridge (Brücke) is a canting element, the lion is the lion if the Pfalz, in which the town is situated. All later seals and images have shown the same composition, but the lion has sometimes been shown without crown (as shown below by Hupp from the 1920s) and the colours have differed widely during the centuries.
 The arms in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925 |
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Literature : Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes; Hupp 1920s