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language be described thus: Argent in base a mount of three vert, above which a castle house embattled of six gules with five windows in fess of the field and two arrowslits, one each side of a gateway with half-open portcullis, above which an escutcheon of the field charged with a cross of the
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Directory of Cultural Monuments in Rhein-HunsrĂĽck district
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The clump village of Niederburg lies at the edge of the
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