Count Zinzendorf - Zinzendorf's Coat of Arms

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Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

Zinzendorf’s Coat of Arms

The coat of arms borne by Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf has eight fields and five helmets and was granted in 1637. The central escutcheon is the original arms of the Zinzendorf’s, which as early as 1281 appeared on a seal on a document. The quarters of the upper half of the shield are the former arms of the Lords von Wald and von Pottendorf. The quarters of the lower half of the shield are the former arms of the Lords von Zelking. In 1637 Otto Heinrich von Zinzendorf and his descendants were permited to unite this with his family shield. The central crest is that from the original Zinzendorf coat of arms, two buffalo horns. The black hunting horn which is superimposed is the badge of the office of Hereditary Constable in the Duchy of Austria below the Ems, which was conferred on the Zinzendorfs in the sixteenth century. The second and third crests, the wolf and lion between the two horns, belong to the coat of arms of the von Wald and von Pottendorf families. The fourth and fifth crests belong to the von Zelking coat of arms. The emblazonment reproduced here was commissioned from C. A. Starke of Goerlitz by the Unity Archivist Joseph Theodor Mueller in 1908, when the town council of Zeist asked for a copy of Zinzendorf’s coat of arms for the newly-built town hall. It can be seen in stained glass in the council room in Zeist.