Iffezheim is a town in the district of

Rastatt Rastatt () is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 51,000 (2022). Rastatt was an ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

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. It lies close to the

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river, where the

Lock Iffezheim The Iffezheim Lock () is a Lock (water transport), river lock on the Rhine near Iffezheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The two passages of the lock serve to allow ships and barges to bypass the hydropower station on the French side of the rive ...

is also situated. Iffezheim is also known for the horse races, which takes place three times a year.

Politics

Mayors

*Jakob Huber (1891–1893) *Konrad Mußler (1893–1911) *Johannes N. Huber (1911–1919) *Anton Oesterle (1920–1932) *Friedrich König (1932–1939) *Heinrich Hertweck (1939–1945) *Franz Xaver Huber (1945–1961) *Albin König (1961–1978) *Otto Himpel (1978–2002) *Peter Werler (2002-2018) *Christian Schmid (since 2018)

Civil parish

Results of the ''Kommunalwahl'' from 13 June 2004: # CDU: 44.8% (6 seats) # FWG: 33.0% (5 seats) # SPD: 22.2% (3 seats)

Twin cities

Iffezheim is twinned with: * Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten,

* Mondolfo,

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Coat of arms

The current

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...

, which was already used in the 16th century, shows an inverted black anchor with a red rudder on a white ground. It's the official

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of Iffezheim since the 19th century. In the meantime a so-called

Wolfsangel (, translation "wolf's hook") or () is a heraldic charge from mainly Germany and eastern France, which was inspired by medieval European wolf traps that consisted of a Z-shaped metal hook (called the ''Wolfsangel'', or the ''crampon'' in F ...

was in use.

References

External links

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