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Deutsche Wappen (Gemeindewappen/Kreiswappen)
German Civic Heraldry

BRUCK IN DER OBERPFALZ

State : Bayern
District (Kreis) : Cham (until 1973 Roding)

Wappen von Bruck in der Oberpfalz

Origin/meaning:
The oldest known seal for the town dates from 1508 and already shows a lion on a bridge. The bridge (Brücke) is a canting element, the lion is the lion if the Pfalz, in which the town is situated. All later seals and images have shown the same composition, but the lion has sometimes been shown without crown (as shown below by Hupp from the 1920s) and the colours have differed widely during the centuries.


The arms as shown in the Kaffee Hag albums

Literature : Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes; Hupp 1920s


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