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Summary

Coat of arms

Deutsch: Stadt Kevelaer

English: city of Kevelaer

Français : ville de Kevelaer

Blazon

Deutsch: „Geteilt; oben in Blau eine goldene (gelbe) Mispelblüte mit roten Butzen und roten Kelchblättern; unten in Gold (Gelb) eine rote Lilie.“

English: „Party per fess azure and Or; above a medlar flower Or seeded and leaved gules and below a fleur-de-lis gules.“ The arms were officially granted on November 19, 1973. Kevelaer belonged until the 17th century to Wetten. In the 17th century the pilgimage to Kevelaer started and the town was separated from Wetten. The first and only known seal of Kevelaer shows St. Anthony, the patron saint of the town. To the left of the saint the medlar flower of the Counts of Geldern. The medlar was also used in the arms of Wetten.The arms are a combination of the medlar of Geldern and Wetten and the fleur-de-lis of the arms of Kleve.

Blazon reference

Deutsch: § 2 Absatz 2 der Hauptsatzung der Stadt Kevelaer

Date

Deutsch: „Der Stadt Kevelaer ist mit Urkunde vom Regierungspräsidenten in Düsseldorf vom 19. November 1973 das Recht zur Führung eines Wappens, eines Dienstsiegels und einer Flagge verliehen worden.“

English: granted 1973-11-19

Artist

Walther Bergmann

Source

[1] auf www.Kevelaer.de
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Permission
(Reusing this file)

This file depicts the coat of arms of a German Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (corporation governed by public law). According to § 5 Abs. 1 of the German Copyright law, official works like coats of arms are in the public domain. Note: The usage of coats of arms is governed by legal restrictions, independent of the copyright status of the depiction shown here.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:17, 2 December 2018	500 × 602 (18 KB)	Fränsmer	Farben nach FIAV. Dateigröße reduziert. Mittlerer Trennstrich hinzugefügt.
	23:08, 9 July 2007	744 × 886 (23 KB)	FZohren	{{Information \|Description= Wappen der Stadt Kevelaer \|Source=self-made \|Date= July 2007 \|Author= Fabian Zohren }}
	20:50, 4 July 2007	744 × 886 (23 KB)	FZohren	{{Information \|Description= Wappen der Stadt Kevelaer \|Source= erstellt mit MGX Designer 9.0 \|Date= July 2007 \|Author= FZohren }}
	20:46, 4 July 2007	744 × 886 (23 KB)	FZohren	{{Information \|Description= Wappen der Satdt Kevelaer \|Source= erstellt mit MGX Designer 9.0 \|Date= July 2007 \|Author= FZohren }}
	20:36, 4 July 2007	744 × 1,051 (22 KB)	FZohren	{{Information \|Description= Wappen der Stadt Kevelaer \|Source=erstellt mit MGX Designer 9.0 \|Date=Jul 2007 \|Author= FZohren }}