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Wöllstadt Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Wöllstadt, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse

Last modified: 2017-11-13 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Wöllstadt municipal banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 7 June 2006
approved 1 August 1972 See also:

Wöllstadt Municipality

Banner:
It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
administration seat: Nieder-Wöllstadt
inhabitants 6,232
Wetterau County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
On 1 August 1972 Nieder-Wöllstadt and Ober-Wöllstadt merged
banner approved on 1 August 1972
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 7 June 2006

Coat of Arms

Shield parted per fess, above Argent a barrulet Sable, issuant from barrulet an upper demi-wheel Gules with its wheel boss charged with an heraldic rose Azure, seeded and barbed Argent.
Meaning:
The arms are combining the elements of the (proposed) arms of the two former municipalities: the rose for both, the demi-wheel for Ober-Wöllstadt and the horseshoe for Nieder-Wöllstadt.
The arms were approved on 15 February 1983.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 May 2017

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