Amt Warburg-Land
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AMT WARBURG-LAND
State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Warburg
Incorporated into : 1975 Warburg
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on October 19, 1938.
The arms show in the upper part the arms of the Counts von Everstein, who in medieval times ruled the area from their estate on the Koglenberg. The base shows the rich farmlands around the Diemel river.
To the Amt belonged:
- Bonenburg
- Calenberg
- Dalheim
- Dössel
- Germete
- Herlinghausen
- Hohenwepel
- Menne
- Nörde
- Ossendorf
- Rimbeck
- Scherfede
- Welda
- Wormeln
Literature : Meyer, 1940