Continuing our heraldic tour of Heidelberg, Germany, we must naturally enough go by the University. The city has been a university town for literally centuries. Founded in 1386, the university is the oldest in Germany, and was the third university established in the Holy Roman Empire. Naturally enough, it has a coat of arms, which it proudly displays in a variety of ways: in color and hatched, and sometimes (as in this example and another, below) both.
The blazon of the arms in English is:
Or a bend gules. Which is about as simple a coat of arms as you can possibly get.
There are also, on different buildings, heraldry-like, but blank, shields. (To my mind, these are crying out for some sort of real heraldry to be placed on them! However, lacking a long ladder, carving tools and/or spray paint, and the courage to no doubt break a number of German laws, I was not about to attempt to rectify that situation myself.)
Still, don't you wish that
someone would create some heraldry on those blank shields?
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