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'''Country''' : Lithuania [[File:Lithuania.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
'''County''' : [[Klaipėda (county)|Klaipėda]][[File:Klaipeda county.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br><br> | |||
'''Municipality''' : [[Kaunas]][[File:kaunas.jpg|60 px|right]]<br> | |||
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The oldest known existing seal of Memel dates from 1619 and shows already the complicated figure as on the present arms. The arms show a main tower and two smaller side-towers all standing on a wooden boat and surrounded by stars. | The oldest known existing seal of Memel dates from 1619 and shows already the complicated figure as on the present arms. The arms show a main tower and two smaller side-towers all standing on a wooden boat and surrounded by stars. | ||
Originally it was thought that the arms were derived from an image of a church with three towers, but older images have disproved this idea. The arms may simply symbolise the main fortress with two guard towers. The boat could be a symbol for shipping and shipbuilding in the city. | Originally it was thought that the arms were derived from an image of a church with three towers, but older images have disproved this idea. The arms may simply symbolise the main fortress with two guard towers. The boat could be a symbol for shipping and shipbuilding in the city. | ||
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The stars can be simply a form of decoration, or the guiding stars used by sailors, or some other meaning. | The stars can be simply a form of decoration, or the guiding stars used by sailors, or some other meaning. | ||
Klaipėda restored the old Memel arms in 1969, but these were banned soon thereafter. After the new Lithuanian independence the arms were restored again on July 1, 1992. | |||
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File:memelz1.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The seal of 1619 | |||
| | File:Klaipėda1892.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The municipal stamp shown in 1892 | ||
File:klaipeda2.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The seal of around 1900 | |||
File:klaipedaz2.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The seal of around 1900 | |||
File:memel.hagdo.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The arms as shown in the [[Kaffee Hag album]] of 1914 | |||
File:memel.tur.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The arms on a [[Turmac]] silk | |||
File:memel1.tur.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The arms on a [[Turmac]] silk | |||
File:memel.sc.jpg|The arms in an [[Schuberts Album deutscher Staaten und Städtewappen|album]] from around 1910 | |||
File:20-6.kur.jpg|The arms in the [[Kurmark Wappenschau]] album from 1929 | |||
File:159.kos.jpg|The arms in an [[Kosmos Deutsche Stadtwappen aus West und Ost|album]] from around 1950 | |||
File:klaipeda3.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Klaipėda|The arms in the town | |||
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[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Lithuania|'''Literature''']]: Rimsa, 1998 | |||
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[[Category:Lithuanian Municipalities]] | [[Category:Lithuanian Municipalities]] | ||
[[Category:Klaipėda]] | [[Category:Klaipėda]] | ||
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