Oelde

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OELDE

State : Nordrhein-Westfalen
District (Kreis) : Warendorf (until 1974 Beckum)
Additions : 1970 Lette, Sünninghausen; 1975 Stromberg

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on March 16, 1910, but the exact origins are not known.

The oldest seal of the town dates from the early 18^th century and shows St. John Baptist, the patron saint of the town as well as a small shield with the letters V and L. The meaning of the letters is unknown. In a later seal from the 19^th century the letters were replaced by a sun. There are no old seals with the present arms or the symbols.

Seal from around 1900	The arms by Hupp in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
Local emergency money with the arms from 1920	Local emergency money with the arms from 1921
The arms on a postal stamp