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The arms were rather complicated; the arms showed a church, with in the gate the miner's tools, and on each side of the tower a small shield, one with the Prussian eagle, and one with the arms of the Counts of the Mark (in gold a bar, chequered of red and silver). The town grew rapidly the last century due to the mining. The church is canting (Kirche=church), the two shields represent the oldest rulers (Mark) and the rulers in 1875 (Prussia). | The arms were rather complicated; the arms showed a church, with in the gate the miner's tools, and on each side of the tower a small shield, one with the Prussian eagle, and one with the arms of the Counts of the Mark (in gold a bar, chequered of red and silver). The town grew rapidly the last century due to the mining. The church is canting (Kirche=church), the two shields represent the oldest rulers (Mark) and the rulers in 1875 (Prussia). | ||
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|align="center"|[[File:Gelsenkirchen.jpg|center]] <br/>Seal from around 1900 | |||
|align="center"|[[File:Gelsenkirchen.cva.jpg|center]] <br/>The arms in the [[Continentale Verlags-Anstalt]] album, +/- 1910 | |||
|align="center"|[[File:3038.aba.jpg|center]] <br/>The arms in the [[Abadie]] albums | |||
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