Näfels

	NÄFELS Country : Switzerland Canton : Glarus Incorporated into: 2011 Glarus-Nord Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":47.09899999999999664623828721232712268829345703125,"lon":9.06269999999999953388396534137427806854248046875,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

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Origin/meaning

The arms show a rowing boat with two oars. The meaning of these arms is not known, but the arms already appear on a glass window from 1604. The arms are also shown on several seals of the town from the 18th and 19^th century.

Variations of the arms in the Kaffee Hag albums 1914-1960

Literature : Tschudi-Schümperlin, 1941

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