Oberbergischer Kreis - Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms

The coat of arms is a combination of the heraldic signs of the territories the district belonged to. The red-white bar in the top symbolizes the County of Mark and the lion that of Berg. Homburg Castle (near Nümbrecht) was the seat of the Princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Read more about this topic:  Oberbergischer Kreis

Famous quotes containing the words coat and/or arms:

    “I can sit up half the night
    With some friend that has the wit
    Not to allow his looks to tell
    When I am unintelligible.
    Fifteen apparitions have I seen;
    The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)