German heraldry

symbol of a region in Central Europe

heraldic figure

The '''' () is an heraldic crown introduced in Germany after World War I. When the German monarchies were abolished following the defeat in the war, this was created as a "republican" crown to replace the old crowns and coronets of rank in the arms of the German Länder, the states of the German federal republic. As designed by the German heraldic authority Otto Hupp in 1919, the crown, also known as a (leaf crown), consists of five vine leaves on a jewelled rim. During the Weimar Republic all of the German states adopted versions of the Volkskrone''. After World War II only Baden-Württemberg,

thumb|200px|A sea-griffin. The sea-griffin (German: Fischgreif; Polish: rybogryf, gryf morski) is a heraldic charge in form of an aquatic griffin with the head, upper half, wings, and talons of an eagle and the lower half of a fish.

Coat of arms