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![[Flag of Balsthal]](../images/c/ch-so086.gif)
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by Pascal Gross
Azure two serpents in saltire Argent double-embowed and confrontant.
Christopher Southworth
The snakes form together something like the figure 8, which is no coincidence. This has a military
background: According to a source from 1689, the Thal district communes were assigned to the Fourth and
Fifth Company of the Second Regiment of Solothurn's militia army. The figure 4 at that time was written
like an 8 open at the bottom; the figure 5 resembled an angle. The most emblems of the Thal district show
either derivations of the figure 4 (Balsthal, Laupersdorf) or 5
(Aedermannsdorf, Herbetswil,
Matzendorf, Welschenrohr).
Martin Karner
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