Johnsdorf-Brunn

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JOHNSDORF-BRUNN

State : Steiermark
District : Feldbach

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Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on May 7, 1984.

To denote the long traditions of cultivating the lands around Johnsdorf, the arms contain two charges: The fleur-de-lis as used by the Pichl family, landowners, who changed their name to von Johnsdorf at about 1500. And a Roman altar, dedicated to the weathergod Jupiter Uxlimetanus, which was found during excavations at a temple district at Königsberg bei Brunn.

Literature : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 36 (1986), p. 47