Wolfisheim

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Template:France WOLFISHEIM

Département : Bas-Rhin

Armoiries de Wolfisheim

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms show a wolf's hook, a metal device placed in a piece of meat. The meat was placed as bait for wolves, and it was aimed to cut the intestines of the wolf, when it had eaten the meat. The symbol was chosen as a canting symbol, the name means (in German), place of the wolf.

Blason de Wolfisheim

The arms by Schœnhaupt, 1900
Blason de Wolfisheim

The arms in the Café Sanka album +/- 1932

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Literature : Les armoiries des communes du Bas-Rhin. Tome VI : Communes du département (Saulxures à Zutzendorf). 1963