Warburg

	WARBURG Country : Germany State : Nordrhein-Westfalen District (Kreis) : Höxter (until 1974 Warburg) Additions: (to see click on expand) 1975 Amt Warburg-Land 1975 Bonenburg 1975 Calenberg 1975 Dalheim 1975 Daseburg 1975 Dössel 1975 Germete 1975 Herlinghausen 1975 Hohenwepel 1975 Menne 1975 Nörde 1975 Ossendorf 1975 Rimbeck 1975 Scherfede 1975 Welda 1975 Wormeln 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":51.4900999999999982037479639984667301177978515625,"lon":9.1453000000000006508571459562517702579498291015625,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

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Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on June 30, 1977.

Warburg was already a city in the early 13^th century. In the 15^th century the Alt- and Neustadt (old and new city) were finally combined into a single city. The oldest seals of the city date from 1254 and 1257 and show a gate in which was standing a bishop. The city belonged to the bishops of Paderborn, so it was likely that the figure was the bishop of Paderborn. In the meantime the fleur-de-lis appeared on the coins of Warburg since 1227. The fleur-de-lis also appeared on smaller seals of the city in the 14^th century. The gate only appeared on the great-seals. The fleur-de-lis was also mentioned as the city arms in 1780.

In the early 20^th century the arms still showed only the fleur-de-lis. Stadler, however, mentions in the 1960s arms based on the complete old seal. I don't know when the city adopted the larger composition as arms. In 1977 the city returned to the use of the fleur-de-lis.

Image gallery

The arms in the Paderborner Wappensammlung (around 1780)
The arms in a 16th century manuscript
Seal from around 1900
The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
The arms according to Stadler, 1960s
The arms in an album from 1968

Literature: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes; Hupp, O: Kaffee Hag albums, 1920s

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