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surmounting (that is, overlying) the pattern recalls the old execution place in
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language be described thus: Per fess Or a fess gules, the whole surmounted by a sword palewise sable, the point to chief, and gules a bend argent charged with three swallows volant of the third.
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watchtower, also called “Katz”. This tower supposedly once stood in the rural cadastral area now called “Auf der Katz”.
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Directory of
Cultural Monuments in Rhein-HunsrĂĽck district
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Kratzenburg in the collective municipality’s webpages
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636:(“Gallscheid Court”) at Emmelshausen, while the
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278: • Density
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1319:Niederburg
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