Coats of arms of Vienna's municipal districts

Each of Vienna's 23 municipal districts has its distinctive features, including a unique coat of arms that reflects the character and traits of the respective municipal district.

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1st municipal district / Innere Stadt

The coat of arms of the 1st municipal district shows a white cross in a red field. This shield is the coat of arms of both the City of Vienna and the Federal Province of Vienna.


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Meaning

From the 13th to the 19th century, the city of Vienna comprised only what today is the 1st municipal district. This is the old core of the city, so the district still uses the characteristic bar cross for its coat of arms. The coat of arms of the City of Vienna first appeared on local coins ("Wiener Pfennige") from the 1270s.

It is likely that the shield goes back to the banner of the imperial troops during the Middle Ages. The standard of the troops used during the reign of Rudolph I of Habsburg (1218-1291) had a similar design. We may therefore assume that this banner served as the model for the coat of arms.

The use of these coats of arms is not regulated by law; thus they may be utilised as commercial graphics under the CC BY 4.0 license. For any external use of these coats of arms as graphics, the copyright holder must be specified as follows: "Graphics: Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna (WStLA)". The graphics must not be used for applications or publications that support criminal, illegal, racist, discriminatory, defamatory, pornographic, sexist or homophobic activities or that instigate such activities.

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