German State Crown

Krone des Preußisch-Deutschen Kaisers (Modell-von-1872)

In 1871 a design and a model for a new state crown (german: Staatskrone) were created to reflect the new

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

. The model was based upon the Crown of the Holy Roman Empire and was kept in the Hohenzollern museum at

Schloss Monbijou Monbijou Palace was a Rococo palace in central Berlin located in the present-day Monbijou Park on the north bank of the Spree river across from today's Bode Museum and within sight of the Hohenzollern city palace. Heavily damaged in World War ...

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, until it disappeared during World War II. It has never re-surfaced. No final crown was ever made. However, the design was used as a heraldic device for the German Kaisers from 1871 until Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication in 1918. The crown was most used as an heraldic symbol, in the German coat of arms and the Emperor's personal standard. A drawing of the crown is used as an emblem by a German monarchist group called "

Tradition und Leben ''Tradition und Leben e.V.'' (TuL, "Tradition and Life"), was a monarchist organisation in Germany. It was registered in January 1959 in Cologne. Prior to that, a constitutional assembly took place in the autumn of 1958. ''Tradition und Leben'' ...

" ("tradition and life"). Crowns for the Empress and Crown Prince were also designed and wooden

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure. Models c ...

s made; see Imperial crown#Prussian-German Imperial Crowns. {{German Crown Jewels Individual crowns German Empire National symbols of Germany