Netzschkau

NETZSCHKAU

State : Sachsen
District (Kreis) : Vogtlandkreis
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft : Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Netzschkau-Limbach
Additions: 1999 Brockau

Official blazon

German

In Silber auf grünem Rasen ein Gärtner in blauer Arbeitskleidung, eine frischgepflanzte Linde festbindend; im rechten Obereck eine aus den Wolken ragende Hand, die aus einem Krug Wasser auf den Baum herabgießt

Origin/meaning

The arms are known from an 17th century seal of the city (city rights on August 7, 1687) and have a religious meaning, the Lord providing the strength for the development of the new city (symbolised by watering the tree). The seals also showed a legend : Durch Gottes reichen Segen und meiner obern Pflege.

The composition only appears as city arms in the 19th century. The figure on the official images was seen by the Nazi government in 1937 as 'typical Jewish' and thus the composition had to be changed, at least the figure got more 'properly' dressed. Also, the previously undefined tree, was now shown as a linden tree, probably based on the large linden on the town square.

Since the 1990s the arms are shown base don the original seal; the gardener has again a beard and the tree is no longer clearly a linden.

The colours have differed widely during the centuries and were formally defined in 1897.

A seal from around 1900	A seal from around 1900
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925	The arms in 1984

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