Gołdap

GOŁDAP

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on May 14, 1570 by Margrave Albrecht Friedrich von Brandenburg, and have since only been slightly modified.The red eagle is the eagle of Brandenburg, the quartered shield the arms of the Hohenzollern dynasty, to which the margrave belonged.

The S is probably a wrong interpretation of the Gothic letter F, one of the initials of the Margrave.The arms above are those as used by the city, but during the years there have been many variations of the arms, with different colours, letters and or with the eagle facing left, instead of facing right as used as present.

Seal from around 1900	The arms in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1915
The arms as shown in 1963	The arms as shown in 1994

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