Show Us Coat of Arms of Your City

[antaryjczyk 0]

Hi. 
I have an idea.
Let everyone place here coat of arms of your city and a short description of it.
Let's get to know their history together.


The present coat of arms was broadcast to my city at 14 March 1938 year. It was a result of competition won by the students of Jagiellonian University. On the shield we have a connected heraldic signs of the Silesian Piast duke's family  (the golden half-eagle) and Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (the half cross with double shoulders placed suitably on blue and black background.

[Glenni 1,444]

Here's mine

The three gulls are there becuase seagulls are quite common here.

the original COA had a few barrels with herring in it , to symbolixe what this town was originally founded for,allthough fishing herring is no longer possible arround here because of the overfishing it went bye  bye arround the early 1900's  Haugesund( in Norway) was founded 1854

Today the town mainly survives on the offshore business,currently  a few oil rigs are at the docks for repair and other maintenance tasks...

[Micah 16]

Well, since this thread doesn't have to do with architecture... nor does it have to do with urbanism since coat of arms can be made before the place ever becomes a city... and since it doesn't exactly involve planning, I decided to move this to the Off-topic forum.

Related to this topic itself, I'll have to get Houston's coat of arms in my next post here.

[hym 358]

Sorry, Micah, but I beat you to it.  Here's Houston's coat of arms.

And here's the coat of arms for the Houston family.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Hmm

Interesting topic.

Found Dallas except its the Family Dallas.

Like Houston it Scottish in Origins.

http://www.houseofnames.com/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=Dallas

Not Sure  modern citys would have them.

[BurroDiablo 222]

I don't live in a City, but I guess I can give you my closest one-

This is Edinburgh's coat of Arms... not as great as I'd hoped really...

[beebs 129]

Edmonton's Coat of Arms. Yuck.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

It seems that we don't have one.  Here's the logo used on the website:

[Meg 368]

Coat of Arms?  Not sure where the nearest one is.  Let's go with this:



It's the Maryland state flag, which is based on the family coat of arms of some local colonial guy.

http://www.sos.state.md.us/Services/FlagHistory.htm

[Cjah 15]

Famous people from Tustin

Rex Hudler, former Major League Baseball player and announcer of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Shawn Green, major league baseball player

Cuba Gooding Jr. attended Tustin High School, but did not graduate from that school.

Alfonso Gomez, professional boxer and participant in The Contender 1

Matthew Lillard, actor attended Foothill High School of the Tustin Unified School District.

Deshaun Foster, NFL Running Back of the Carolina Panthers, attended Tustin High School; Also set a California single season rushing record of 59 Touchdowns

Eva Angelina, adult film actress in Girls Gone Wild,2005

Not many famous people a lame little logo....

Well Tustin is my home...lol

Persoanlly I like the Hungarian coat of arms....

If I have the money I might get a big tattoo of this on my back....but my plans now are to get it on the back of my left hand....

[antaryjczyk 0]

Oh I forgot to write the name of my home city. City name: Chorz

[Odainsaker 2,133]

San Antonio de Bexar was once the seat of the Spanish colonial governor in Texas, so many of the early official buildings and authorities boasted the Imperial coat of arms of the Hapsburgs.  Of course, our Loyal Outpost of the Empire was really just a few fortified dwellings and Catholic missions beseiged by hostile American natives, and I doubt anyone in the Hofburg or the Escorial could find us on a map of their dynastic realm.

The current city seal for San Antonio was carved in oak by Johannes Scholze, formerly a native of Dresden, Germany, and presented in 1925.

I wonder if the decorative curves and swirls were inspired by Dresden's heavily frothy brand of baroque decoration.  As a wood sculpture, it was initially colorless, though many subsequent artists and sculptors interpret their own colors and decoration, as can be seen in the later giant crest that replaced the older wooden seal over the City Council chambers.

Within the heraldic shield are various Texas Lone Star emblems, representing the State of Texas, with a scales of justice at the center.  Crowning the shield is a representation of the facade of the Alamo, San Antonio's landmark shrine to Texas's storied battle for liberty and independance from Mexico.  The motto at the bottom is "Cradle of Liberty," another reference to the Alamo's importance in Texas history.

Of course, few citizens see the seal in all its gilded glory hanging in the lofty and grandiose City Council chambers.  Instead, we get the cold stamp of the Bureau of Bureaucracy affixed to all our city public service bills:

[Skyfire2275 23]

Ottawa, ON, Canada:

The flag, with the modern logo on it:

It's an O and the white spiky things represent the parliament buildings.... wrapped into an O shape.

As for the crest/shield... I don't really know. Never seen it. All the letterheads and envelopes and everything else always feature the O on the flag.

[Camaron 1]

The London County Council had a coat of arms before it was abolished,



The only city not very far away from me that seems to still have a coat of arms is Portsmouth,



(Picture credits to www.wikipedia.org)

[jvlm.123 0]

My town's coat of arms:

I don't really know any of the background to the coat of arms, except that 'Oigh Maigh' is the Ancient Irish name for the town (kinda obvious, really).

Edit: @JanYpe: Well, the Irish is 'An Ómaigh', so it's not Irish anyway.

Edit:Edit: Actually (after a bit of research), it is the Ancient Irish name for the town, and not Latin. Sorry, my mistake.

[JanYpe 17]

I don't really know any of the background to the coat of arms, except that 'Oigh Maigh' the Latin name for the town (kinda obvious, really).quote>

That would make it the weirdest Latin I've ever seen. Are you sure it isn't Irish or something?

[marryescher 0]

My city doesnt have a coat of arms, that I can find. Here is the coat of arms for the state of Michigan instead:

That is an elk and a moose on there.

[IonWind 3]

This is Tampere city's coats of arms. It's not so decorative but moreover, it fulfills the rules of heraldry. It has a bit of soviet look, doesn't it?

Anyway, the hammer on the left is a symbol for the industry, as Tampere is an old industrial city. The crosswise waving bar stands for the Tammerkoski rapids that flow trough the city and the staff of Mercury is a symbol for the trade and business in the city. The red and gold colours come from the Pirkanmaa region's coats of arms.