Coat of arms of the municipality of Saarfels
The coat of arms of the municipality of Saarfels was its official emblem from 1970 until it was incorporated into Beckingen in 1974. The coat of arms is divided by a red sloping bar and shows a red key in silver above and a black cross in gold below.
history
The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Saarfels on August 3, 1970 by the Ministry of the Interior of Saarland.
Foundation of the coat of arms
The design of the municipal coat of arms provides information about the name and history of the village. The sloping wave bar symbolizes the Saar and with it the name Saarfels , which the village only received on May 16, 1923.
The cross in the coat of arms symbolizes the historical Wendelinus memorial stone as well as the monastery or the abbey of Mettlach . Mettlach Abbey shared the manorial lordship over Saarfels with the Montclair rulership . Since the cross is floating and not continuous, as the heraldic guidelines prescribe, it is merely a conceptual reference to the Teutonic Order, which was also given rights in Saarfels.
The dominion of Montclair is symbolized by the key . This key can also be found in the coats of arms of the Lords of Montclair, von Sierck and the Count of Sayn . The colors of the coat of arms come from the coat of arms colors chosen by the Dukes of Lorraine . They had sovereignty in Saarfels. The key is also a discreet reference to Saarfels' earlier name.
literature
- Hermann Lehne, Horst Kohler: Coat of arms of the Saarland: State and municipal coats of arms. Saarbrücken: Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, 1981, ISBN 3-922807-06-2
- Justification of the coat of arms in the appendix to the coat of arms approval for the municipality of Saarfels from August 3, 1970
Web links
- Saarland Official Journal, No. 24/1970, p. 701 (PDF file; 577 kB)