Bad Dürkheim

BAD DÜRKHEIM

State:Rheinland-Pfalz
District (Kreis):Bad Dürkheim
Additions:1935 Grethen, Hardenburg, Seebach; 1969 Leistadt, Ungstein

Official blazon
German	In Silber ein schwarzer Maueranker.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

Dürkheim was the capital of the Counts of Leiningen, who granted city rights in 1360. The oldest existing seal dates from 1490 and shows the wall-anchor, taken from the arms of Lord Eckbrecht of Dürkheim. A later seal, which has been used from 1540-1776 shows the same arms, with on top a cross and an abbot's crosier. The cross and crosier indicate the fact that the town (the city rank had been temporarily lost) belonged to the monastery of the H. Cross in Limburg until 1554. The arms have thus basically never changed.

Seal from around 1900	The arms in the Continentale Verlags-Anstalt album, +/- 1910
The arms in the Wappen-Sammlung (1900)	The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925

See also:Frœschwiller

Literature: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes.

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