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The coat of arms of the State of Vorarlberg is the Montfort red banner on a silver shield.

The red Montfort banner with its three equally wide, black-fringed flaps and the three rings on the top edge rests on the silver shield. The main field of the banner has two black horizontal lines, the flaps three.
 
 
Legal basis
State constitution
Article 6, section 1: The coat of arms of the State is the Montfort red banner on a silver shield.
The State coat of arms is dealt with in more detail in the Law on State symbols, State Gazette no. 11/1996, 58/2001. It contains binding representations in colour and black as appendices 1 and 2. Unless this right is granted by general legal regulations, the right to "bear" the State coat of arms requires the approval of the State Government. Its "use" is optional.
Pursuant to § 248, section 2 of the Austrian Penal Code, Federal Gazette no. 60/174, abuse of the State coat of arms may be a criminal offence.
 
 
History
The coat of arms of the State of Vorarlberg dates back to the coat of arms of the Count Palatines of Tübingen who, before 1200, bore a red flag as a sign of their palatine authority, which is interpreted as a court flag in a golden shield.

This coat of arms was passed on to the Counts of Montfort, a branch of the  Tübingen Counts, but in a silver shield for differentiation purposes. As the Montforts ruled over large areas of Vorarlberg in the Middle Ages, their coat of arms was integrated as a heart shield in the first Vorarlberg State coat of arms (granted in 1863 by Kaiser Franz Josef according to a draft by the historian Josef Bergmann).
Since 1918 the State of Vorarlberg only bears the red flag of Count Montfort in a silver shield.