Vorsfelde

	VORSFELDE Country : Germany State : Niedersachsen District (Kreis) : Stadt Wolfsburg File:Wolfsburg.jpg (until 1972 Helmstedt) Additions: 1972 Wolfsburg 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":52.4405000000000001136868377216160297393798828125,"lon":10.836600000000000676436684443615376949310302734375,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

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Origin/meaning

The arms show a boar, which is derived from the word Vor, or a lean piglet. The boar probably was used ad a symbol for the city already in the 15^th century, but the oldest known seal dates from the 17^th century. The seal showed the boar on a filed (Felde) and the arms thus have not changed since.

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Seal from around 1900
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
Postal cancellation

Literature: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes.

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