Broye-les-Loups-et-Verfontaine

Country : France Département : Haute-Saône Additions : 1806 Broye-les-Loups 1806 Verfontaine Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":47.47019999999999839701558812521398067474365234375,"lon":5.43010000000000037090330806677229702472686767578125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon

French	Coupé: au 1er parti au I d'azur à la fontaine monumentale jaillissant dans un abreuvoir à senestre, le tout d'argent, au II de sinople à la borne de pierre d'argent gravée d'une crosse d'abbesse, au 2e de gueules à la tête de loup arrachée d'argent.
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Origin/meaning

The fountain (fontaine) is canting for Verfontaine, the wolf's head (loup) for Broye-les-Loups. The border stone refers to the villages of Petit-Colonge and Grand-Colonge and shows a crosier for the Abbey of Colognes, which dominated the villages until 1622.

Literature: Image from http://www.armorialdefrance.fr