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

German Empire The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperia ...

. 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), Spree river across from today's Bode Museum and within sight of the Hohenzollern Stadtschloss, Berlin, city pal ...

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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, ), is a Monarchism in German-speaking countries, monarchist organisation in Germany. The group has campaigned for the restoration of the historical German monarchy since 1956. Their candidate for the German cr ...

" ("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 , . Models can be divided in ...

s made. File:Imperial State Crown of the German Empire.svg, The Imperial Crown in heraldic representation File:Imp. Crown Berlin.jpg, Model on the roof of the

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File:Germania Niederwalddenkmal 2023a.jpg,

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holding the Imperial Crown atop the Niederwald monument File:Victoria (1880) Anton von Werner Historisches Museum Saar.jpg,

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

holding the Imperial Crown in a painting by

Anton von Werner Anton Alexander von Werner (9 May 18434 January 1915) was a German painter and illustrator, best known for his depictions of the Franco-Prussian War and the Unification of Germany, typical of the Naturalist style. Member of the Akademie der K ...

File:Duisburg Rathaus Burgpplatz Mittelrisalit Wilhelm I b.jpg, A statue of Kaiser

Wilhelm I Wilhelm I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany. ...

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

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