Steinheim

Steinheim is a metropolis in Hoxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The centre of Steinheim paperwork the financial, cultural and social hub of the Steinheimer Borde, one of the main territories of the antique Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn. This territory was called Wethi-Weizengau in Saxon instances. Particularly scenic are the foothills of the Eggegebirge. In the town core after the renovations inside the 1970s and 1980s, just a few older residential homes have been saved.

As a rule, this typically meant plain half-timbered Dielenhauser nearly all of which had been constructed after the devastating city fireplace in 1729. Especially well preserved is Rochusstrabe 22, a half of-timbered Dielenhaus from 1729. Steinheim's civic coat of fingers might heraldically be defined accordingly: In argent a wall with 3 crenellated towers, the middle tower higher than the 2 flanking, gules, inside the wall under the center tower a gate or Steinheim's oldest town seal, from the 15^th century, shows the wall with the three towers, however no longer the gate.

The wall and towers have figured on all seals considering the fact that that time, however some seals showed the gate, and others did now not. Arms were formally granted the city on 23 March 1908, and confirmed most effective the wall and towers, now not the gate. On 22 March 1971, the city followed a new coat of arms whose composition was roughly the equal, however it protected a narrow inexperienced chief.