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Wangen bei Olten commune (Solothurn canton, Switzerland)

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Wangen bei Olten

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Per pale Gules St Gallus nimbed holding a Book in dexter and a walking Staff in sinister all Argent and of this Second a bear of the First rampant holding a trunk raguly.
Christopher Southworth

From reasons unknown to us, all consulted flag retailers except one depict the animal more like a wolf than a bear (example). According to Galliker (Schweizer Wappen und Fahnen, vol. 7, 2004),
the emblem shows Saint Gall and his bear (Part of the Gallus traditions is the legend of the wood-carrying bear).
The earliest proof of this emblem is a communal seal from 1819. It was confirmed by the communal council on 21 March 1941.
Martin Karner

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