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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2069569, member: 39&quot;]Nowadays all three (Poland, Austria, Germany) have one-headed eagles. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The bird with the two heads symbolizes a duality, e.g. king and emperor. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had one, Russia had and has one ... and the Holy Roman Empire (of German Nation, -1806) had one.</p><p><br /></p><p>In that HRE there were some &quot;free&quot; cities, that is, they did not have a ruler such as a king, duke, etc.&nbsp; Only the emperor, which made them kind of independent. Lübeck was such a city, and like several other free cities it proudly displayed the imperial double eagle (and in this case also the &quot;Civitatis Imperialis&quot; inscription) to show that status.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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