Pilsting

PILSTING

State : Bayern
District (Kreis) : Dingolfing-Landau (until 1973 Landau an der Isar)
Additions : 1972 Ganacker, Waibling; 1978 Großköllnbach

Official blazon
German	In Silber ein grüner Frosch.
English	Argent, a frog Vert.

Origin/meaning

The frog probably indicates the position of the town in the moors in the 13^th century. The arms are supposed to have been granted in the middle of the 15^th century, but the document got lost in the 18^th century. The oldest known seal dates from 1514 and already shows the frog as the sole symbol. All later seals and arms show the frog. Only in the 19^th century the field was sometimes shown red (see arms as shown by Hupp in the 1920s), but otherwise the colours have been as they are now.

Image gallery

The arms by Apian (1559)
The arms in a manuscript from 1599
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
The arms in the Deutsches Wappenmuseum

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

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