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In green are one silver/white left flank bar and on the right border of the shield two golden/yellow squares.
The green ground expresses the nature and the health. The silver flank bar represents the river Erft. The right side looks like an "E" for Erftstadt. The yellow squares represent the biggest villages Lechenich and Liblar.
The coat of arms was designed by Josef Günterberg from Berlin. The town got it as an official coat of arms on 15 March 1974.
Geography
Erftstadt is located 25 km north-west of Bonn. Its height ranges from 81 to 151 metres above sea level.
The following towns and municipalities border on Erftstadt:
In Erftstadt are five further schools: two gymnasiums, two Realschulen and one Hauptschule. In Lechenich are the Theodor-Heuss-Schule, the only Hauptschule in Erftstadt. There also are the Realschule Lechenich and the Gymnasium Lechenich. The Realschule "Gottfried-Kinkel-Realschule" and the Gymnasium Ville-Gymnasium are located in Liblar. The only private school in Erftstadt, the Freie Waldorfschule Erftstadt, can be found in Liblar too. It is a primary and a secondary school.
There are seven primary schools in Erftstadt:
Donatus-Schule Liblar
Erich-Kästner-Schule Bliesheim
Nordschule Lechenich
Südschule Lechenich
Grundschule Gymnich
St. Barbara-Concordia-Schule Kierdorf
Janusz-Korczak-Schule Erp
The TH Köln plans to have a new faculty for Spatial development and infrastructure systems in Erftstadt.
There is one music school called Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Musikschule in Liblar.
Carl Schurz (1829–1906), politician and first German-born cabinet secretary (Secretary of the Interior 1877–1881) in the US
Carl Brendgen (1841–1916), owner of three briquette factories in the area of Erftstadt and pioneer of the industrial use of brown coal in the Rhineland
Jean Bungartz (1854–1934), animal artist, specialist author, photographer, breeder, lived from 1886 to 1913 in Lechenich
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