Coat of arms of the Merzig-Wadern district

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District of Merzig-Wadern
Saarland
Coat of arms of the Merzig-Wadern district
Blazon

"In the quartered shield on the upper right a red bar cross in silver, on the upper left in gold a red oblique right bar, covered with three mutilated silver eagles, lower right in gold a red wolf tang placed obliquely to the right, lower left a gold-armored field divided into nine times by silver and blue gold-crowned, double-tailed red lion. "

Circle colors
          Red Yellow
Basic data
Introduction: 1966
Legal basis: Decision of the district council and approval of the State Ministry of the Interior
Supporting documents: Ministerial decision of February 1, 1966

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

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