Amt Meschede
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AMT MESCHEDE
State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Meschede
Incorporated into : 1975 Meschede
Official blazon
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on October 30, 1936.
The arms show in the right half the eagle of the Counts of Arnsberg, as the area historically belonged to the Arnsberg County and later to the State of Köln. The left half shows the arms of the medieval family Von Meschede.In 1935 the council of the Amt applied for arms with a branch of a beech tree and a boar. The branch symbolised the so-called Stimmstamm, a place on the border of the municipalities Meschede, Eversberg and Warstein. The boar symbolised the nature and the forests. The State Archives considered these arms not very specific for the region and designed the arms shown above.
The following municipalities belonged to Amt Meschede :
Literature : Meyer, 1940