page_title: Usingen
section_title: Coat of arms
hierarchical_section_title: Usingen / Coat of arms
caption_attribution_description: Sealing stamp Title: Stadt Usingen / Preussen Description: Siegelstempel, blau, weiß Place: Usingen / Preussen size: 4 cm
context_page_description: Usingen is a small town in the Hochtaunuskreis in Hessen, Germany. Until 1972, this residential and school town was the seat of the former district of Usingen.
context_section_description: The earliest seal whose appearance is known – there had been earlier ones, but what they looked like is unknown – dates from 1277 and shows the four lions (golden ones denoting Nassau; silver ones denoting Saarbrücken), since the town was ruled then by the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken. Later seals did not show the billets and crosses with which the fields are spangled, but they reappeared in 1935, when the current arms were conferred. An earlier town symbol, a cloverleaf (or heraldically, a trefoil), may explain the charge on the inescutcheon. This was also added to the arms in 1935.
caption: Seal around 1900
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