
Last modified: 2019-04-03 by  klaus-michael schneider
 klaus-michael schneider
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It is a blue-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Apr 2019 
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 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Apr 2019
 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Apr 2019
It is a blue-white vertical bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Apr 2019
Shield parted per pale of Gules and Argent, an eagle armed Or in counterchanged colours, upon his breast an inescutcheon quartered of Sable and Argent.
Meaning:
The white demi-eagle on red is taken from the arms of the Lordship of Ruppin, the red demi-eagle on white from Brandenburg. The inescutcheon is the quartered shield of the Hohenzollern kin, to which the Electors of Brandenburg belonged. 
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Apr 2019 
The arms were approved on 11 August 1994 and confirmed on 4 March 2004.  
Klaus-Michael Schneider,  1 Apr 2019 
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