Coat of arms of the Merzig-Wadern district
The coat of arms of the Merzig-Wadern district has been the district's emblem since 1966.
layout
The coat of arms shows the Trier cross , the Lorraine eagle shield , a wolf fishing rod and the Luxembourg lion in a quartered shield .
history
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Reinhold Junge . The heraldist referred to the historical conditions in the district in the time before the French Revolution .
In the upper right field there is the Trier Cross . This symbolizes the affiliation of the offices of Saarburg and Grimburg to the Kurstaat Trier . The top left field shows the eagle shield from the coat of arms of Lorraine . The red wolf tang at the bottom right comes from the coat of arms of the von Soetern family . These had in the high court of Wadern through the rule Dagstuhl property.
The double-tailed red lion comes from the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . He points to the former rule of Luxembourg in the area around Perl .
The approval for the use of the coat of arms was granted by resolution of the Saarland Ministry of the Interior on February 1, 1966. With a certificate dated April 18, 1989, the Merzig-Wadern district was granted the right to use the colors red and yellow as circle colors.
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
- Klemens Stadler : German coat of arms. Bd 2, The municipal coats of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Bremen: Angelsachsen-Verlag, 1966
Web links
- Merzig-Wadern district
- Saarland Official Gazette, No. 12/1966, p. 130 (PDF file; 123 kB)