Wittlich coat of arms
Description and explanation:
In the red field parallel to one another two vertical silver keys turned away from each other with hafts put on top of each other, the left one being arranged above the right one.
The wall crown is a decorative element of the coat of arms: a battlement tower with open gate in the middle between walls and battlements. The lords of the area, the castle and the later bailiwick were the Archbishops of Trier until 1794. In 1291 the town was granted a town charter by King Rudolf von Habsburg at the request of the Archbishop and elector Boemund von Warnesberg.
In the first large municipal seal from the time of the granting of the town charter there is a battlement tower above an open gate between turrets, in front of which there is a rondell of the height of the wall.
The magistrate's seal from the early 14th century, however, displays two upright, gothically styled keys with hafts arranged above each other which is the model for today's town seal.
The keys are the attribute of St Peter as the Patron of the Archdiocese of Trier.
When municipal jurisdiction was introduced in 1300 and Archbishop and Elector Balduin von Luxembourg made Wittlich the seat of the bailiwick of Wittlich in 1307, the influences of the archbishopric dominated the design of the coat of arms. The wall crown was re-discovered again much later and used as an adornment of the coat of arms. It is the decorative element of the coat of arms.