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'''LIMBERG BEI WIES'''

State : [[Steiermark]]<br>
District : Deutschlandsberg

[[File:limberg.jpg|center]]

====Origin/meaning====
The arms were granted on June 6, 1977.

Limberg is a corruption of Lindenberg, hence the linden leafs and the mountain in the arms. 

The chapel is dedicated to St Barbara and was a built by the miners (in Styria, we usually call them "Bergknappen") of the coal-mine Steyeregg (now closed down). 

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[[Literature]] : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 28 (1978), 29

[[Category:Austrian Municipalities L]]
[[Category:Steiermark]]
[[Category:Deutschlandsberg]]
[[Category:Granted 1977]]