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<center>''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''</center><br> | |||
'''Country''' : Germany [[File:germany.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''State''' : [[Sachsen]][[File:Sachsen.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''District (Kreis)''' : [[Görlitz (kreis)|Görlitz]] (until 2008 [[Löbau-Zittau]])[[File:Gorlitz.kreis.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''Additions''':<br> | |||
* 1970 Pethau | |||
* 1999 Hartau | |||
* 2007 [[Hirschfelde (Zittau)|Hirschfelde]] | |||
** 1950 Rosenthal | |||
** 1974 Drausendorf | |||
** 1990 Wittgendorf | |||
** 2002 Dittelsdorf | |||
** 2005 Schlegel | |||
{{#display_map:50.8922,14.8039|width=250|height=250|zoom=7}} | |||
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''' | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+Official blazon | |||
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|'''German''' | |||
| blazon wanted | |||
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|'''English''' | |||
| blazon wanted | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms show in the first and fourth quarter the silver lion of [[Bohemia]], as Zittau received city rights and royal rank of the Kings of Bohemia in 1255. From 1320-1347 the city was a possession of the Dukes of Jauer, a branch of the Dukes of Silezia, hence the eagle of [[Duchy of Lower Silezia|Silezia]] in the second and third quarter. | The arms show in the first and fourth quarter the silver lion of [[Bohemia]], as Zittau received city rights and royal rank of the Kings of Bohemia in 1255. From 1320-1347 the city was a possession of the Dukes of Jauer, a branch of the Dukes of Silezia, hence the eagle of [[Duchy of Lower Silezia|Silezia]] in the second and third quarter. | ||
The escutcheon shows the letter Z, the town's initial. | The escutcheon shows the letter Z, the town's initial. | ||
===Image gallery=== | |||
| | <gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | ||
| | File:Zittau16.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms in a [[:Category:Windhag city arms|16th century manuscript]] | ||
| | File:zittauz1.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|Seal from around 1900 | ||
File:288b.wsa.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms in an [[Wappen-Sammlung Series 2 Cities and regions|album]] from around 1905 | |||
File:Zittau.sc.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms in an [[Schuberts Album deutscher Staaten und Städtewappen|album]] from around 1910 | |||
File:zittau.hagd.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms by [[Otto Hupp|Hupp]] in the [[Kaffee Hag albums]] +/- 1925 | |||
File:zittau.aur.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms in an [[Staats-Wappen und Flaggen (Unter dem Olympia-Banner)|album]] from around 1935 | |||
File:Zittau.kos.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms in an [[Kosmos Deutsche Stadtwappen aus West und Ost|album]] from around 1950 | |||
File:3382.aba.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms in the [[Abadie]] albums | |||
File:Zittaup2.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|Postal cancellation 1976 | |||
File:Zittaup.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|Postal cancellation 1980 | |||
File:Zittaup1.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|Postal cancellation 1988 | |||
File:Zittaum.jpg|alt=Wappen von Zittau/Arms (crest) of Zittau|The arms on a manhole cover | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Germany|'''Literature''']]: Bensing et al., 1984; Hupp, O: [[Kaffee Hag albums]], 1920s | |||
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[[Category:German Municipalities Z]] | [[Category:German Municipalities Z]] | ||