Bilten

	BILTEN Country: Switzerland Canton: Glarus Incorporated into: 2011 Glarus-Nord 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":47.14959999999999951114659779705107212066650390625,"lon":9.0221000000000000085265128291212022304534912109375,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were adopted on January 23, 1940.

The arms show a blue circle, taken from the arms of the Counts of Lenzburg, and a crown taken from the arms of the Schänis Abbey. Count Arnold von Lenzburg gave his possessions around Bilten to the Abbey in around 1178.

Literature: Tschudi-Schümperlin, 1941

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