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+|[[File:bechhofen.jpg|center|350 px|alt=Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}/Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
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+'''Country''' : Germany [[File:germany.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br><br>
+'''State''' : [[Rheinland-Pfalz]][[File:rheinlan.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br><br>
+'''District (Kreis)''' : [[Südwestpfalz]][[File:pirmasen.kreis.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br><br>
+'''Verbandsgemeinde''': [[Verbandsgemeinde Zweibrücken-Land|Zweibrücken-Land]][[File:Zweibruc.amt.jpg|60 px]]
+{{#display_map:49.2632,10.7886|width=250|height=250|zoom=7}}
+|}
-State : [[Rheinland-Pfalz]]<br/>
-District (Kreis) : [[Südwestpfalz]]<br/>
-Verbandsgemeinde : [[Verbandsgemeinde Zweibrücken-Land|Zweibrücken-Land]]
-[[File:bechhofe.jpg|center|alt=Wappen von {{PAGENAME}}/Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
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 |'''German'''
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+| Von Rot und Schwarz durch einen silbernen Wellenstab gespalten, rechts drei senkrecht stehende goldene Ähren, darüber ein silberner Spangenhelm, darunter ein silbernes Zahnrad, links ein rotbezungter und -bewehrter goldener Löwe.
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+| Shield parted by a pallet wavy Argent, at dexter Gules three grain ears Or in fess between a helm Argent on chief and a cogwheel of the same on base, at sinister Sable a lion rampant Or armed and tongued Gules.
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 ===Origin/meaning===
-The arms show four drying rolls (Walzen) and can also be seen on the oldest seals of the town, dating from 1456. The origin of these are not clear, but it may have something to do as a canting element for the Bech part of the name; the rolls were used by bakers (Bäcker).
+The arms were officially granted on June 2, 1986.
-The arms were officially granted in 1933 in the colours of the Pappenheim family, who ruled the town from 1364-1410.
-[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Germany|'''Literature''']]: Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes.
+The ears are symbole agriculture, the cogwheel industries. The helmet is alluding to the Knights of Bechhofen, who lived in the village around 1200. The lion is taken from the arms of the Dukes of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, former local rulers. The tinctures on dexter half are those of their predecessors, the Counts of Homburg.
+The village originally applied for arms in 1950 and the design showed a canting Pechofen (an oven to make wood-tar) and a helmet for the Knights of Bechhofen.
+[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Germany|'''Literature''']]: Debus, 1988
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-[[Category:Granted 1933]]
+[[Category:Granted 1986]]