Amt Berleburg
AMT BERLEBURG
State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Siegen-Wittgenstein (until 1974 Wittgenstein)
Additions : 1932 Amt Arfeld, Amt Berghausen, Amt Girkhausen
Incorporated into: 1975 Bad Berleburg , Erndtebrück, Winterberg
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Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on September 22, 1938.
The green pale represents the forests in the area. The red pale in silver represents the colours of the County Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, the blue pale in gold represents the colours of the County Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. The territory of the Amt was part of both counties.
To the Amt Berleburg belonged:
- Arfeld
- Alertshausen
- Aue
- Balde
- Beddelhausen
- Berghausen
- Birkefehl
- Birkelbach
- Christianseck
- Diedenshausen
- Dotzlar
- Elsoff
- Girkhausen
- Hemschlar
- Langewiese
- Mollseifen
- Neuastenberg
- Raumland
- Richstein
- Rinthe
- Sassenhausen
- Schüllar
- Schwarzenau
- Stünzel
- Weidenhausen
- Wemlighausen
- Wingeshausen
- Womelsdorf
- Wunderthausen
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