Last modified: 2019-04-25 by klaus-michael schneider
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Quedlinburg had been the seat of the namesake county until 2007.
Jörg Majewski, 10 Jan 2007
It is a black over yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: §2(2) of Hauptsatzung of Quedlinburg City from 20 November 2000, last updated on 3 April 2006
Jörg Majewski, 10 Jan 2007
It is a black-yellow vertical bicolour with arms shifted to the top.
Source: §2(2) of Hauptsatzung of Quedlinburg City from 20 November 2000, last updated on 3 April 2006
Jörg Majewski, 10 Jan 2007
Shield Or, an eagle Sable armed Gules, upon his breast an inescutcheon Gules (acc. to blazon fimbriated Or), charged with a castle Argent, in port a dog couchant Argent collared Sable.
Source: §2(1) of Hauptsatzung of Quedlinburg City from 20 November 2000, last updated on 3 April 2006
Meaning:
Though the Quedlinburg arms display the Imperial (one-headed) eagle, its coat of arms is not listed by Siebmacher (1605) among the arms of Free Imperial Cities. It probably was in use for centuries by customary law. Depictions often changed in details. The current pattern is based on the eagle, painted by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt (1844 - 1918) in 1882.The draft of the current version was made by Jörg Mantzsch.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Aug 2018
The colours were red and yellow, granted in 1896 by Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt.
Source: Anhaltischer Staats-Anzeiger, edition 7.11.1896, Dessau
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2019
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