Schöntal

Districts

The municipality consists of the following districts.

• Abbey

History

Following the dissolution of Abbey in 1802, its constituent towns were governed by the Kingdom of as they had existed under the monastery. In 1810–11, this district was dissolved and its area given to the , , and districts. In 1938, these were all given to the district of the Free People's State of . With the , and its old Ortsteile have been assigned to the district. The 81, running through , began operation in 1974.

Geography

The municipality (Gemeinde) of comprises 8165 ha of the district, within the state of and the Federal Republic of Germany. is physically located on the and . It is bisected by the river, which also marks the lowest elevation in the municipality at 199.29 m above sea level NN. The highest elevation, 399.51 m, is found in the east of the municipal area.

Coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms for displays an armored fist in silver and a crosier in gold crossed diagonally over a green field but behind the Zisterzienserbalken, a checkerboard-pattern red-and-white bar associated with the Cistercian Order. This pattern was issued by the district government on 19 September 1978, but evolved from renditions of a pattern in 1972 that omitted the armored hand, a reference to , who is buried in . The crosier and the bar references the Cistercians, whose iconography, most prominently Abbey's church, had been used to identify in postage stamps in the past.

References

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