Siegburg

SIEGBURG

State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Rhein-Sieg Kreis
Additions : 1899 Wolsdorf

Official blazon

German	blazon wanted
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted in 1947.

The city received city rights in the early 13^th century. The oldest seals show until 1430 a walled city. Later St. Anno, the patron saint appears on the seals. All later great seals show either a city or the saint.

Smaller seals (ad causas) show St. Michael, the patron saint of the mighty abbey of Siegburg, behind the arms of the Counts of Berg, a lion. Since 1558 the small shield was replaced by a mountain and a (free)lion. This seal was used for the present arms, which were granted in new and more defined colours in 1947.Hupp showed the arms in the 1920s in a different composition, with the lion in a shield, see below.

	Seals of the city from around 1900.
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925	The arms on a special cancellation 1985 with Guarda

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