Coat of Arms
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The lion is taken from the original arms of the Count of Diepholz. The bear claws are from the arms of Count of Hoya. This combination symbolizes the merger of County of Diepholz and County of Hoya in 1977. Read more about this topic: Diepholz (district) Famous quotes containing the words coat and/or arms:“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.” “Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.” |