Buxtehude

BUXTEHUDE

State:Niedersachsen
District (Kreis):Stade
Additions: 1931 Altkloster; 1972 Daensen, Dammhausen, Eilendorf, Hedendorf, Heimbruch, Immenbeck, Ketzendorf, Neukloster, Ottensen, Ovelgönne, Pippensen

Official blazon
German	blazon wanted
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

Buxtehüde was founded around 1280 by Giselbert Archbishop of Bremen, and the oldest seal is known since 1304. The seal already showed the two crossed keys, symbol of St. Peter, patron saint of Bremen. The small cross is derived from the arms of the diocese of Verden, to which the city belonged.

In the 17^th century the city used a helmet, with as a crest two buffalo horns with the cross of Verden in between.

The arms in a manuscript from 15143	The arms as shown in 1891
The municipal stamp shown in 1892
Seal from around 1900	Emergency money from the 1920s
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925	The arms on a first day cover

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