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'''AMT VERL'''

State: [[Nordrhein-Westfalen]]<br/>
District (Kreis): [[Gütersloh (kreis)|Gütersloh]] (until 1972 [[Wiedenbrück (kreis)|Wiedenbrück]])<br/>
Incorporated into: 1970 [[Verl]]

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

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===Origin/meaning===
The arms were granted on June 24, 1938.

The diamonds in the escutcheon symbolise the 5 different municipalities in the Amt and the oak trees symbolise the many forests in the area. At the same time the oaks are a canting symbol, as the name is derived from Verlo, or four forests. The arms of Verl itself also showed the four trees.

To the Amt belonged:<br/>
* [[Bornholte]]<br/>
* [[Schloß Holte|Liemke]]<br/>
* [[Österwiehe]]<br/>
* [[Sende]]<br/>
* [[Verl]]


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[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Germany|'''Literature''']]: Meijer, 1940

[[Category:German Ämter, Samtgemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden and Grossgemeinden]]
[[Category:Nordrhein-Westfalen]]
[[Category:Gütersloh]]
[[Category:Wiedenbrück]]
[[Category:Granted 1938]]