Plößberg Market Town (Germany)

Markt Plößberg, Landkreis Tirschenreuth, Bayern

Last modified: 2022-07-02 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Plößberg Banner
• Plößberg Coat of Arms

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Plößberg Market Town

Plößberg Banner

It is a white-black vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 June 2022

Plößberg Coat of Arms

Shield quartered of Argent and Sable, four fleur-de-lis in counterchanged tinctures.
Meaning:
The town arms are based on the family arms of the Lords of Gleißenthal, who had been the successors of the Lords of Plößberg as local rulers. Their arms are known by seals and by the roll of arms of Philipp Apian (1568) and had been a simple quartered shield. The fleur-de-lis probably are alluding to the Counts of Sulzbach, who died out in 1188. The Lords of Plößberg had been vassals of the counts in the 12th century and gained the village as fiefdom. Plößberg gained the rights of a market town in 1951.
Source: Stadler 1968 p.44
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 June 2022

Banner and arms were approved on 27 September 1951 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 June 2022

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