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WÜLFRATH

State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Mettmann

Official blazon

German

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on August 18, 1938.

Wülfrath used in the 19^th 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 and sheep were omitted.

Seal from around 1900	The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
Postal cancellation 1980

Literature: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes.

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