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Bavaria. / 49.07861°N 11.38556°E / 49.07861; 11.38556. Bavaria, [a] officially the Free State of Bavaria, [b] is a state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of 70,550.19 km 2 (27,239.58 sq mi), it is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany.
- History of Bavaria
The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest...
- Politics of Bavaria
The Bavarian State Government Bavarian State Chancellery....
- Flag of Bavaria
Historical flags of Bavaria Flag Years of use Government...
- Bavarian Language
Upper German language area after 1945: blue:...
- Bavarian Alps
Geography Bavarian Alps, view from Murnau. The term in its...
- Dachau
Church of St Jakob, Dachau. Dachau (German pronunciation:)...
- History of Bavaria
- The Golden Lion
- The Franconian Rake
- The Blue Panther
- The Three Black Lions
- The White and Blue Central Shield
- The People’s Crown
Originally, the golden lion in the black quarter was the symbol of the Count Palatine of the Rhine. After the investiture of Ludwig Duke of Bavaria with the Palatinate in 1214, it served for centuries as the common symbol of the old Bavarian and Palatine House of Wittelsbach. Today, the golden Palatine lion edged in red stands for the Upper Palatin...
The second quarter is halved by red and white (silver) sections with three white triangles pointing upwards. This “rake” appeared around 1350 as the coat of arms of some towns of the Bishopric of Würzburg and has also been depicted in the seals of the prince-bishops since around 1410. Today, the Franconian rake stands for the administrative distric...
The third quarter, bottom left, shows a blue panther rampant, edged in gold on a white (silver) background. Originally it was depicted in the coat of arms of the Count Palatine of Ortenburg, in Lower Bavaria, in the 12th century. Later, it was adopted by the House of Wittelsbach. Today, the blue panther represents the old Bavarian administrative di...
The fourth quarter depicts three black lions couchant, edged in red, one above the other on a gold background. Their heads are turned towards the observer. They are taken from the old coat of arms of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, the former dukes of Swabia. In the Bavarian coat of arms, these three lions represent the administrative district of Swabia.
The heart shield features white (silver) and blue lozenges slanting to the right. Since 1204 the coat of arms of the Counts of Bogen, this heart shield was adopted as the coat of arms of the House of Wittelsbach in 1247. The white and blue lozenges are today regarded as a symbol of Bavaria as a whole. Together with the People’s Crown it is also off...
The four coat fields with the heart shield in the centre are crowned by a golden band with precious stones decorated with five ornamental leaves. The people’s crown, that appeared in the coat of arms for the first time in 1923, symbolises the sovereignty of the people after the abolition of the royal crown. Did you know?Historians believe that the ...
5 days ago · Bavaria has well-developed road and rail networks. Major airports are located near Munich and Nürnberg. Under its constitution of 1946, Bavaria is a free state with democratic parliamentary institutions. Voters directly elect representatives to the Landtag (state parliament) for five-year terms. The Landtag chooses a minister-president and a ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Free State of Bavaria is a parliamentary democracy just as Germany is a federal republic; it has its own state institutions, revenues, and sets its own fiscal policies. The most important state institutions are the Bavarian parliament (“Landtag”) as the legislative branch, the Bavarian State Government as the executive branch, and ...
The Free State of Bavaria has been a state of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949. Following World War II Bavaria fell into the American Occupation Zone. Due to the political rebuild of Germany with new regional divisions, Bavaria lost the Rhenish Palatinate region to Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern) by Johannes Merz. Since 1919, the Bavarian state name has officially been "Freistaat Bayern" (Free State of Bavaria). Originally, "Free State" meant freedom from the German Reich, then, as the German equivalent of "Republic", the opposite of the monarchy. In 1918/19 the word prevailed as the general ...
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