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| | | De gueules à un château-fort d'argent, ouvert du champ, coulissé de sable, à deux tours crénelées d'argent, le tout ajouré et maçonné de sable. | ||
De gueules à un château-fort d'argent, ouvert du champ, coulissé de sable, à deux tours crénelées d'argent, le tout ajouré et maçonné de sable. | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The arms are canting, the name is derived from Weissen-Burg or white-castle. | The arms are canting, the name is derived from Weissen-Burg or white-castle. The castle already appeared on 13th century seals of the city and the arms basically have never been changed since. | ||
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | |||
File:Wissembourgz1.png|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The great seal (1278-1407) | |||
File:Wissembourgz2.png|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The secret seal (1381-1471) | |||
File:Wissembourgc1.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms on a 1626 coin | |||
File:Wissembourg16.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in a [[:Category:Windhag city arms|16th century manuscript]] | |||
File:Wissembourg17.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in a 17th century manuscript | |||
File:Wissembourg1.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in Hozier (1696) | |||
File:Wissembourg-tr.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in Traversier (1842) | |||
File:Wissembourgs.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms by [[Literature-France|Schœnhaupt, 1900]] | |||
File:weissenburg.sc.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in an [[Schuberts Album deutscher Staaten und Städtewappen|album]] from around 1910 | |||
File:weissenburg.adsw.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in an [[Auslanddeutsche Städte und ihre Wappen|album]] from 1938 | |||
File:wissembourg.hagfr.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms in the [[Café Sanka : La France Héraldique|Café Sanka album]] +/- 1932 | |||
File:weissenburg.frel.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms on a [[Alsace (postcards)|postcard]] | |||
| | File:Wissembourg2.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms on a street sign ([https://lacabornedelourse.blogspot.com source]) | ||
| | File:Wissembourg4.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms on a cover (2006) | ||
File:Wissembourg3.jpg|alt=Blason de Wissembourg / Arms of Wissembourg|The arms on a cover (2011) | |||
</gallery> | |||
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