Volkskrone

The Volkskrone (English: People's Crown) 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.^[1][2] As designed by the German heraldic authority Otto Hupp in 1919, the crown, also known as a Laubkrone (leaf crown), consists of five vine leaves on a jewelled rim.^[3][4] During the Weimar Republic all of the German states adopted versions of the Volkskrone.^[1][2] After World War II only Baden-Württemberg,^[5] Bavaria,^[6] Hesse^[7] and Rhineland-Palatinate^[8] chose to retain its use, while Berlin combined it with a mural crown.^[9]

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  Lesser coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg with a local adaptation of the Volkskrone
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  Lesser coat of arms of Bavaria with a Volkskrone
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  Coat of arms of Berlin with a hybrid crown combining elements of both a Volkskrone and a mural crown
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  Coat of arms of Hesse with a Volkskrone
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  Coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate with a Volkskrone