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'''FREILAND BEI DEUTSCHLANDSBERG'''

State : [[Steiermark]]<br>
District : Deutschlandsberg<br>
Incorporated into : 2015 [[Deutschlandsberg]]

[[File:freilandd.jpg|center|alt=Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}/Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]

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===Origin/meaning===
The arms were granted on July 9, 1984.

Freiland is a municipality in Western Styria, on the mountain ridge of the Koralpe. It was settled only at the end of the 12<sup>th</sup> century, which is comparatively late for this region. It was unclaimed, "free land" (Frei Land), in other words raw woods, from which the first settlers had to hew their homesteads. So, a plain shield was used for Freiland. As clover is an important plant for fodder, a bordure of trefoils was included, too. Red and silver are the colours of the Benedictine monastery of Admont, which owned the lands of the now municipality.

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[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Austria|Literature]] : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 36 (1986), p. 43

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