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Petition against "Mohr" coat of arms: Garmisch-Partenkirchen also affected

2020-10-13T09:16:10.218Z


The Mohr from the district coat of arms in Garmisch-Partenkirchen should disappear. This calls for a petition that the Bavarian State Parliament has to deal with. District Administrator Anton Speer clearly rejects this.


The Mohr from the district coat of arms in Garmisch-Partenkirchen should disappear.

This calls for a petition that the Bavarian State Parliament has to deal with.

District Administrator Anton Speer clearly rejects this.

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The Bavarian State Parliament must now decide on this.

A petition wants to have the city of Coburg, the district of Freising and the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen change their coats of arms.

The Garmisch-Partenkirchen district office submitted a statement to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior at the beginning of October, which it also made available to the media on Tuesday.

In it, the authority precisely explains the historical background of the Mohren figure.

The Mohrenkopf, the Freising coat of arms, symbolizes the affiliation of the County of Werdenfels to the Hochstift Freising.

This lasted from the 13th to the beginning of the 19th century.

The coat of arms has existed in its current form since 1962.

District Administrator Anton Speer takes a clear position at the end of the almost three-page letter: "I reject a change in the coat of arms on behalf of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district."

The Lord Mayor of Coburg Dominik Sauerteig (SPD) had already asked around in his decision-making bodies.

"Political majorities to change the city coat of arms are not perceptible in the committees of the city of Coburg", he emphasized in a statement to the state government.

The representation honors the city saint Mauritius and has no racist origin.

According to the spokeswoman, it was still unclear when the committee for submissions and complaints in the state parliament would deal with the petition and what consequences there might be.

According to the municipal code, changing coats of arms is basically the responsibility of the municipalities.

(further report follows)

dpa / lby / kat

Source: merkur

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