Amt Warburg-Land

AMT WARBURG-LAND

State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Warburg
Incorporated into: 1975 Warburg

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on October 19, 1938.

The arms show in the upper part the arms of the Counts von Everstein, who in medieval times ruled the area from their estate on the Koglenberg. The base shows the rich farmlands around the Diemel river.

To the Amt belonged:

Bonenburg
Calenberg
Dalheim
Dössel
Germete
Herlinghausen
Hohenwepel
Menne
Nörde
Ossendorf
Rimbeck
Scherfede
Welda
Wormeln

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