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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1657575, member: 39&quot;]<font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">The city&#039;s website comes to your rescue. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here is some info about the current CoA, and the two older ones (Idar and Oberstein): <a href="http://www.idar-oberstein.de/stadtinfo/stadtinfo/stadtwappen/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.idar-oberstein.de/stadtinfo/stadtinfo/stadtwappen/" rel="nofollow">http://www.idar-oberstein.de/stadtinfo/stadtinfo/stadtwappen/</a>&nbsp; The page is in German, but the first CoA is the one that Oberstein used until 1933:</font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://www.idar-oberstein.de/typo3temp/pics/528d30a0fc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Cannot really translate the description well, due to all those heraldic terms, but on the left (from the viewer&#039;s perspective) you have a double hook (cramp/wall iron?), in the middle there is an acorn (oak fruit?) in red, and below a tree; on the right there is a ring. These elements are red, except for the tree which is green.</font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">And the building in the rock is the church (note that it says &quot;Felsenkirche&quot; at the bottom). See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idar-Oberstein#The_Legend_of_the_Felsenkirche_.28.E2.80.9CCrag_Church.E2.80.9D.29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idar-Oberstein#The_Legend_of_the_Felsenkirche_.28.E2.80.9CCrag_Church.E2.80.9D.29" rel="nofollow">here</a> ...</font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Christian</font></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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