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Mörel-Filet commune (Valais/Wallis canton, Switzerland)

image located by Martin Karner

Gules, an ox head caboshed Sable holding two ears of grain Or in the mouth a chief Azure bearing a five-pointed mullet of the Third.
Christopher Southworth

On 1 January 2009 the new commune was formed by the merger of Mörel and Filet (see below).
The new emblem adopted the symbolism of the old Filet emblem (leaving out the wavy bar), which anticipated the merger (see description at Filet).

See also:

Mörel (until 31 December 2008)

image by Pascal Gross

Gules, an ox head caboshed Sable holding two ears of grain Or in mouth.
Christopher Southworth

Filet (until 31 December 2008)

image by Pascal Gross

Tierced in fess Azure a mullet of five Argent a bar wavy of this Last and Gules an ox head caboshed Sable having two grain ears Or in its mouth.
Christopher Southworth

The star stands for Filet, the ox for Mörel, which is on the opposite side of the Rhone river (which is called Rotten in the Upper Valais), symbolized by the wavy bar.

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