Amt Duisdorf
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AMT DUISDORF
State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Bonn
Incorporated into : 1969 Alfter, Bonn
Official blazon
Unter silbernem Schildhaupt, darin ein durchgehendes schwarzes Balkenkreuz, in Blau ein silberner Rost aus fünf Stangen mit Ring.
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on ??-??-1958.
The arms show in the upper half the cross of the State of Köln, and in the base a grill, the symbol of St. Lawrence, patron saint of the village of Lessenich.
The arms are presently used by the Hardtberg district of Bonn, to which a large part of the former amt belongs.
To the Amt belonged:
- Alfter
- Buschdorf
- Duisdorf
- Gielsdorf
- Impekoven
- Ippendorf
- Lengsdorf
- Lessenich
- Oedekoven
- Röttgen
- Witterschlick
Literature : Nagel, R. : Rheinisches Wappenbuch, Köln, 1986.