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'''WÜLFRATH'''
'''WÜLFRATH'''

Revision as of 18:54, 5 November 2012

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WÜLFRATH

State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Mettmann

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Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on August 18, 1938.

Wülfrath used in the 19th century, after the town received city rights in 1827 arms that showed a shepherd with a wolf, surrounded by a flock of sheep and lightened by a sun. These arms were based on a seal from 1620 from the local parish. It showed the local church and a shepherd fighting a wolf with a stick. It is probably symbolising the battle between good and evil. The wolf is chosen as a canting symbol.As the old arms were really non-heraldic, the present arms were devised, in which church or sheep were omitted.

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Seal from around 1900
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The arms in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925


Literature : Stadler, K. : Deutsche Wappen - Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Angelsachsen Verlag, 1964-1971, 8 volumes.