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Kradenbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Kradenbach's area is 173 ha, 27 ha of which is wooded. It sits at an elevation of 480 m above sea level.
The municipality's arms might in English Heraldry language be described thus: Argent a pallet wavy azure, dexter a cross gules and sinister three mitres in pale of the last.
The blue wavy pallet (narrow vertical stripe) refers at once to the brook that gave the municipality its name and to the placename ending —bach, which means “brook”. The cross on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is the arms formerly borne by the Electorate of Trier, once the Feudalism overlord, while the three mitres on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side symbolize Saint Maternus – who headed three different bishoprics in his lifetime (Cologne, Tongeren and Trier) – thus representing the municipality's patron saint. Description and explanation of Kradenbach’s arms – Click on Wappen.
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