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Summary

Coat of arms

Deutsch: Stadt Xanten

English: City of Xanten

Français : Ville de Xanten

Blazon

Deutsch: „Das Wappen der Stadt zeigt im silbernen Feld, das von einem mit altgoldenen Münzen belegten schwarzen Bord eingefasst ist, zwei schräg gekreuzte Schlüssel mit abgewendeten Bärten, zwischen denen oben ein schwarzes Kreuzchen schwebt.“ Die korrekte Blasonierung lautet:„In Silber (Weiß) mit einem schwarzen, mit elf goldenen (gelben) Kugeln belegten Schildbord, zwei schräggekreuzte schwarze Schlüssel mit abgewendeten Bärten, dazwischen oben ein schwebendes schwarzes Kreuz.“ Xanten besitzt seit 1228 Stadtrechte. Die Schlüssel entstammen den ältesten Stadtsiegeln und symbolisieren die Zugehörigkeit zum Erzstift Köln und dessen Patron, den hl. Petrus; die Kugeln erinnern an den hl. Nikolaus in einem mittelalterlichen Schöffensiegel.

English: „Argent, with a bordure sable, charged with eleven bezants, two crossed keys with bits outwards, between them a pending cross of the second.“ The arms were officially granted in 1911 and again in 1953. Xanten was an important Roman castellum and received city rights in 1228 by the Archbishop of Cologne. The city has used many different seals, the oldest with St. Peter, the patron saint of Cologne, but most with his symbols, the two crossed keys. The two keys appear first in the great seal in 1320. The bordure, which appears in the 16th Century, remembers Saint Nicholas.

Blazon reference

Deutsch: § 2 Absatz 2 der Hauptsatzung der Stadt Xanten

Date

1953 - first granted 1911

Artist

Unknown author

SVG: 1^st by Beck.worma; 2^nd by Perhelion.
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Source

Nagel, Rolf, Rheinisches Wappenbuch, Köln 1986, S. 110, ISBN 3-7927-0816-7

This image is taken from heraldry-wiki.com – Heraldry of the World – an international civic heraldry site by Ralf Hartemink heraldry-wiki.com/wiki/Xanten

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Licensing

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	02:06, 10 October 2012	464 × 532 (1 KB)	Perhelion	tiny improvement
	01:42, 10 October 2012	464 × 532 (1 KB)	Perhelion	opt + border from reference
	15:40, 9 April 2012	464 × 514 (1 KB)	Perhelion	opt: more symmetrical (more like original)
	14:34, 23 March 2007	354 × 401 (14 KB)	Beck.worma	{{Information \|Description={{de\|Wappen von Xanten]}}{{en\|Coat of arms of Xanten}} \|Source=[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:WappenXanten.jpg WappenXanten.jpg] uploaded by [[User:Xantener\|Xantener \|Date=2007-03-23 \|Author=Converted to