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|align="center"|[[File:hartberg2.jpg|center]] <br/>The arms by Zacharias Bartsch (1567)
|align="center"|[[File:hartberg2.jpg|center]] <br/>The arms by Zacharias Bartsch (1567)
|align="center"|[[File:{{PAGENAME}}1.jpg|250 px|center|Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}]]  <br/>The arms by Widimsky, 1864
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|align="center"|[[File:hartberg.hagat.jpg|center|Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}]]  <br/>The arms in the  [[Kaffee Hag : Die Wappen der Republik Oesterreich|Coffee Hag album]] +/- 1932  
|align="center"|[[File:hartberg.hagat.jpg|center|Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}]]  <br/>The arms in the  [[Kaffee Hag : Die Wappen der Republik Oesterreich|Coffee Hag album]] +/- 1932  
|align="center"|[[File:0552.aba.jpg|center|Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the [[Abadie]] albums
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|align="center"|[[File:hartberg3.jpg|center]] <br/>The eagle arms by Kobel (1954)
|align="center"|[[File:hartberg3.jpg|center]] <br/>The eagle arms by Kobel (1954)

Revision as of 06:05, 1 July 2018

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HARTBERG

State : Steiermark
District : Hartberg-Fürstenfeld (until 2015 Hartberg)

Hartberg.jpg

Official blazon

In einem roten von einem silbernen Balken durchzogenen Schilde erscheint auf grünem Boden die Gestalt des auf einem nach links schreitenden braunen, graugezäumten Pferd sitzenden Heiligen Martin.

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on October 31, 1947.

St. Martin is the patron saint of Hartberg. The arms show him meeting the beggar, for whom he divided his own coat afterwards.

The city was founded in the Middle Ages (first mentioned as a city in 1286) to protect the road over the Wechsel mountain pass, which links (or separates) Lower Austria and Styria, and also the Eastern border of Styria.

The arms also contain the Austrian arms, Gules, a Fess Argent. This symbolises the importance of the pass road between Styria and (Lower) Austria. These states were independent countries in the Middle Ages.

The arms with the beggar already appear in the seals from the 14th century and also in the book by Bartsch in 1567. In the 1570s the town and region were sold to the Paar family, whose arms contained a crowned eagle in the second and third quarter. The city therefore used an eagle as arms until 1947 when the old arms were officially restored.

Hartberg2.jpg

The arms by Zacharias Bartsch (1567)
Wappen von Hartberg

The arms by Widimsky, 1864
Wappen von Hartberg

The arms in the Coffee Hag album +/- 1932
Wappen von Hartberg

The arms in the Abadie albums
Hartberg3.jpg

The eagle arms by Kobel (1954)
Hartberg4.jpg

The new arms by Kobel (1954), facing right instead of left

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Literature : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 12 (1962), p. 28; Bartsch (1567); Kobel and Pirchegger, 1954.

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