Sool

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SOOL

Canton : Glarus
Incorporated into : 2011 Glarus-Süd

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially adopted on April 8, 1939.

The arms show a castle and a rising sun. The meaning of the arms is not known, the arms are taken from a roll of arms from the early 18^th century where it was shown as the arms of the Nobles of Sool. The sun may be a canting element, the castle a simplified image of the local castle.

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Literature : Tschudi-Schümperlin, 1941