List of coats of arms in the Heinsberg district

This list includes all coats of arms of the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia listed in Wikipedia , including historical coats of arms. All cities, communities and districts in North Rhine-Westphalia have a coat of arms. They can be reached via the navigation bar at the end of the page.

District coat of arms

location	coat of arms	Comments
District of Heinsberg		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated September 3, 1973: “Divided and split above. Above: in front in red a crowned, two-tailed, silver lion; behind in gold a black lion. Below: a free-floating, lying, red lily cross in silver, covered with a five-petalled blue flax blossom. "

Coats of arms of former districts

circle	coat of arms	Comments
Erkelenz district		Approved by a document from the Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia dated May 9, 1955: "The coat of arms shows a red lily cross in gold, the center of which is covered with a blue flax blossom."
Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg		Approved by a document from the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia dated March 1, 1955: The shield shows the Jülich lion on a golden background in the first quarter. In the quarter below, the parrot on the coat of arms of Count Wilhelm von Jülich (1556) is depicted. Both figures are supposed to represent the city of Geilenkirchen. The other half is filled by the city of Heinsberg's silver lion on a red background.

Coats of arms of cities and municipalities

City or municipality	coat of arms	Comments
City of Erkelenz		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated October 27, 1972: “The coat of arms is divided; above in blue a striding, double-tailed, red-tongued and armored golden lion, below in silver a red medlar flower with golden, green-dotted clusters and green sepals. "
municipality Gangelt		"A gold-colored, rising, crowned, red-armored, black, two-tailed lion, covered with a silver diagonal right-hand bar."
City of Geilenkirchen		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated November 29, 1972: "Divided; above in blue a half, double-tailed, red-tongued and armored golden lion; below, in gold, a blue parrot with a red beak and legs of the same color, which stands on a black branch. "
District town of Heinsberg		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated October 2, 1974: "In red a right-turned, crowned, double-curled silver lion."
City of Hückelhoven		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated October 25, 1972: “In the black field a silver crossbar, above it in the head of the shield four silver stars with six corners each (to characterize the four villages). In the lower part of the shield the symbol of mining: hammer and mallet, silver. "
Selfkant municipality		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Aachen dated February 27, 1970: "In the silver field an S-shaped curved green branch with eight red roses, whose sepals and clusters are golden."
City of Übach-Palenberg		Approved by a document of the Upper President of the Rhine Province dated December 2, 1937: “The coat of arms of the city represents a horizontally divided shield, in the upper blue field the crossed lily scepter, gold tinged, above it the letter 'T' hovers in black; the lower field of the shield is split, in front in the yellow field a black, uncrowned lion with a red tongue and turned to the left, behind in the red field a silver, crowned lion turned to the right (the dividing line). "
Municipality Waldfeucht		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated March 14, 1977: "Above a golden shield base, inside a black forest hook, in red a crowned, two-tailed silver lion."
City of Wassenberg		Approved by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated August 24, 1974: "In blue a golden, tinned gate castle with an open gate, on the central tower a crowned two-tailed red lion."
City of Wegberg		Approved by a document of the Upper President of the Rhine Province of April 14, 1937: In the heraldic shield, divided by blue and silver, growing out of the dividing line above, a red-armored, tongued and crowned golden lion, below three blue wavy bars.

Coats of arms of former municipalities

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  Aphoven-Laffeld municipality

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  Community Beeck to 1935

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  Birgden coat of arms

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  community Birgelen

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  Brachelen coat of arms

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  Doveren parish

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  Coat of arms of Dremmen

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  Community Gerderath

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  Coat of arms of Hastenrath

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  Horst coat of arms

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  community Immendorf

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  Karken parish

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  Coat of arms of Kievelberg

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  community Kückhoven

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  Coat of arms of Langbroich - Harzelt

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  Community of Lindern

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  community Lövenich

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  community Myhl

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  Ophoven parish

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  Orsbeck municipality

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  Community Schwanberg

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  Stahe coat of arms

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  Teveren municipality

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  Municipality of Würm

Historical coat of arms

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  City of Geilenkirchen (until 1972)

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  City of Wassenberg (until 1974)

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  City of Wegberg (until 1937)

Coat of arms descriptions and notes

1. ↑ § 2 of the main statutes of the Heinsberg district (PDF; 47 kB)
2. ↑ Main Statute of the City of Erkelenz ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 134 kB), Section 2, Paragraph 2. 
3. ↑ Main statutes of the Gangelt community ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 93 kB), Section 2, Paragraph 2. 
4. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Geilenkirchen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Section 2 Paragraph 1.  
5. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Heinsberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , § 3 paragraph 2.  
6. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Hückelhoven  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Section 3 Paragraph 1.  
7. ↑ Main statutes of the Selfkant community, Section 2, Paragraph 2.
8. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Übach-Palenberg (PDF; 77 kB), § 3 Paragraphs 1 and 2.
9. ↑ Main statute of the community Waldfeucht (PDF; 55 kB), § 2 para. 1.
10. ↑ Main statute of the city of Wassenberg ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , § 2 Paragraph 2. 
11. ↑ The unheraldic and incorrect description of the coat of arms in Article 3, Paragraph 2 of the main statute of the city of Wegberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. reads: "The [...] city coat of arms contains (a) in the upper blue field the growing, golden, red-tongued and crowned lion and (b) in the lower blue field the talking brook motif of an old aldermen's seal."  
12. ↑ Birgelen: "In black an erect silver anchor."
13. ↑ Doveren: The coat of arms is divided into gold and blue. Above a black lion with a red tongue and red paws, below in blue a golden dove with a white beak.
14. ↑ Gerderath: "The coat of arms shows a silver-rooted oak in green."
15. ↑ Karken: "A silver shield covered with three blue crossbars."
16. ↑ Kückhoven: "The coat of arms is split: in front in blue a golden, red-tongued and armored lion, behind in gold three (2: 1) green clovers."
17. ↑ Alleviate: The shield is divided into two parts. In the upper half is the Jülich lion on a golden background. In the lower half, also gold, is the patron of the place, St. John the Baptist, pictured. There is a linden leaf in each of the two upper edges.
18. ↑ Lövenich: “The coat of arms shows in black an upright, red-tongued golden lion holding a silver Gothic tower in its paws; top left and bottom right and left accompanied by a hop blossom in silver. "
19. ↑ Myhl: "In the blue field a silver M stylized as a lily"
20. ↑ Orsbeck: "In gold, a red St. Andrew's cross with four blue water lily leaves."
21. ↑ Schwanenberg: "The coat of arms shows under a silver shield head, inside a red pinnacle bar, in blue a silver swan standing on a silver three-mountain."