Mellach

	MELLACH Country : Austria State : Steiermark District : Graz-Umgebung Incorporated into: 2015 Fernitz-Mellach Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":46.941699999999997316990629769861698150634765625,"lon":15.5158000000000004803268893738277256488800048828125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on July 4, 1983.

The arms are composed of the arms of former landowners (fess embattled, battle-axes) with one exception. The staff is the symbol of St James, the Apostle. A church has been dedicated to him from the 13^th century on at Enzelsdorf.

Literature: Image provided by Karl Palfrader , MStLA 34 (1984), p. 34

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