Fohnsdorf

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FOHNSDORF

State : Steiermark
District : Judenburg

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Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on January 31, 1956.

The arms are canting, showing a Fahne (banner), or Fohne in Styrian dialect. The miner's tools show that Fohnsdorf was a mining town at the time when the arms were granted.

Literature : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 12 (1962), p. 25