Amt Unna-Kamen

	AMT UNNA-KAMEN Country : Germany State : Nordrhein-Westfalen District (Kreis) : Unna Incorporated into: 1968 Bergkamen 1968 Kamen 1968 Lünen 1968 Unna 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":51.57679999999999864712663111276924610137939453125,"lon":7.63300000000000000710542735760100185871124267578125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
German	Im gespaltenen S~hilde vorn in gold ein dreireihig rot-silbern geschachter Balken, hinten in blau ein mit drei roten Pfählen belegter silberner Balken.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on December 17, 1935.

The arms were designed in 1935 and combine the arms of the Counts of the Mark (checquered bar) and those of the family Von der Recke. The Von der Recke ruled the districts of Unna and Kamen from more as 200 years as governors in the County of Mark.

To the Amt belonged:

Afferde (1968 to Unna)
Heeren-Werve (1968 to Kamen)
Hemmerde (1968 to Unna)
Kamen
Lünern (1968 to Unna)
Methler (1968 to Kamen)
Mühlhausen (1968 to Unna)
Niederaden (1968 to Lünen)
Oberaden (1966 to Bergkamen)
Siddinghausen (1968 to Unna)
Stockum (1968 to Unna)
Uelzen (1968 to Unna)
Unna
Wasserkurl (1968 to Methler)
Weddinghofen (1966 to Bergkamen)
Westhemmerde (1968 to Unna)
Westick (1968 to Methler)

Literature: Meyer, 1940

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