Volkskrone

The Volkskrone is an heraldic crown introduced in Germany after World War I. When the German monarchies were abolished following the defeat in the war, this was created as a "republican" crown to replace the old crowns and coronets of rank in the arms of the German Länder, the states of the German federal republic. As designed by the German heraldic authority Otto Hupp in 1919, the crown, also known as a Laubkrone, consists of five vine leaves on a jewelled rim. During the Weimar Republic all of the German states adopted versions of the Volkskrone. After World War II only Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate chose to retain its use, while Berlin combined it with a mural crown.