This page lists the municipal flags of Central Germany. It is a part of the Lists of German municipal flags, which is split into regions due to its size.
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Municipality | Flag | Coat of arms | Enactment Date | Description | Ref. |
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Darmstadt | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | First adopted: 15th century Current form: 1917 | A blue-white horizontal striped flag. The coat of arms with lion and lily is already located on a keystone of the lower vault of the city church tower from the 15th century. Century. The coat of arms was re-granted in 1917 in today's forms and colours by the then Grand Duke of Hesse. The lion is the heraldic animal of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen, who ruled the city. The lion of the Katzenelnbogener can also be seen in the coat of arms of Auerbach (Bensheim-Auerbach), Zwingenberg a.d.B., Pfungstadt, Katzenelnbogen and Sankt Goar. The lily was later inserted into the coat of arms, probably to distinguish lion representations in other coats of arms. The origin of the lily cannot be proven with certainty. However, it is suspected that the lily is supposed to symbolise the city church in Darmstadt, which was originally dedicated to Mother Mary. The lily is considered a sign of purity and is therefore often presented as an attribute of the Virgin Mary. | [1] |
Frankfurt | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() | Coat of arms: 1936 Current form: 5 June 1952 | A white-red horizontal striped flag. The Frankfurt eagle goes back to the single-headed imperial eagle from the thirteenth century. | [2] |
Municipality | Flag | Coat of arms | Enactment Date | Description | Ref. |
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Abtsteinach | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | Coat of arms: 6 September 1972 Flag: 14 January 1980 | A blue-white-blue striped flag. The coat of arms contains a golden sword and a golden key. It was taken over by the former Ober-Abtsteinach community when the community was founded. The coat of arms of Abtsteinach is a canting arms. The abbot's staff documents the connection of Abtsteinach as the property of the Lorsch monastery (there was no abbey in Abtsteinach). The rock or mountain symbolizes the Hardberg as the highest mountain in the area, which is defining for Abtsteinach. The wave shield base symbolizes the course of the Steinach, whose source rises in Abtsteinach and flows into the Neckar. It was designed by Darmstadt heraldist Georg Massoth. | [3] |
Municipality | Flag | Coat of arms | Enactment Date | Description | Ref. |
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Ahnatal | ![]() | 15 June 1978 | A red-white-red-white-red striped flag. The coat of arms features as fleur-de-lis. It was designed by Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt. | [4] |
Municipality | Flag | Coat of arms | Enactment Date | Description | Ref. |
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Alheim | ![]() | Coat of arms and vertical flag: 25 May 1973 Horizontal flag: Not yet approved | A green-white-red-white-green flag. The coat of arms depicts the Alheimerturm observation tower. | [5] |
Municipality | Flag | Coat of arms | Enactment Date | Description | Ref. |
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Weilmünster | ![]() | ![]() | Coat of arms: 1 July 1935 Vertical Flag: 12 February 1963 Horizontal flag: Not yet approved | A blue and orange orthogonal quartered flag. These colours represent the Duchy of Nassau. The coat of arms in its current form was awarded on 1 July 1935 by the President of the Province of Hesse-Nassau and confirmed by the Hesse Interior Ministry on 30 September 1983. At the same time, the municipality of Weilmünster (Oberlahnkreis) was granted the right to use the name “market town” in a separate document. The church in the coat of arms is modeled on the Protestant church in Weilmünster. The golden lion with the seven shingles comes from the coat of arms of the former Duchy of Nassau. It can be proven that today's coat of arms was used as an official seal shortly after the Thirty Years' War. | [6] |
Municipality | Flag | Coat of arms | Enactment Date | Description | Ref. |
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Aarbergen | ![]() | Coat of arms: 29 September 1972 Vertical flag: 31 January 1973 Horizontal flag: Not yet approved | A blue-white striped flag. The coat of arms contains a golden sword and a golden key crossed diagonally in blue over a golden shield base divided by a pine cut. | [7] |
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Allendorf (Eder) | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | Coat of arms and vertical flag: 11 April 1967 Horizontal flag: Not yet approved | A blue-white-blue striped flag. The award of the coat of arms came after the endorsement of a report prepared by Karl Ernst Demandt on 1 March 1967. This was based on research by the former director of the Marburg State Archives Carl Knetsch and the archivist and librarian Hans Joachim von Brockhusen. Originally, the coat of arms was probably the family coat of arms of the von Allendorf (Aldindorf, Altendorf) noble family, which died out in the 15th century, according to Knetsch and Brockhusen. However, the village chronicler Norbert Henkel criticizes the allegedly inadequate evidence for this assumption. Despite multiple documented mentions of a noble family who named themselves Allendorf after the town, there is so far no evidence that today's municipal coat of arms served as their family coat of arms. Henkel cannot understand the documentary basis on which Knetsch connects the coat of arms sketch attached to his research with the family coat of arms of the von Allendorf family. The coat of arms sketch mentioned here was probably based on the sandstone relief on the Battenfeld church, which probably dates from the 15th century and which can still be seen there today. This is an alliance coat of arms that shows a coat of arms with facing crescents over a star on the right side and the coat of arms of the Biedenfeld family that is clearly identifiable on the left side. According to heraldic interpretation, this alliance coat of arms illustrates that a woman of the von Allendorf family entered into a marriage with a man of the von Biedenfeld family. Knetsch may have drawn the conclusion from a family tree he created for the von Biedenfeld family that this was the coat of arms of the von Allendorf family. Henkel concludes that today's municipal coat of arms cannot be traced back with certainty to a family coat of arms of the von Allendorf family, since their family coat of arms is not known or cannot be clearly assigned to it. It is therefore clear to him that the coat of arms belonged to the wife of a man from the von Biedenfeld family. The identity and origins of this wife are still unclear today. Based on the alliance coat of arms, it can be assumed that this couple could have been connected to the construction work on the Battenfeld church. | [8] [9] |
Oberursel (Taunus) (German:[oː.bɐ.ˈʊʁ.zl̩] ) is a town in Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It is located to the north west of Frankfurt, in the Hochtaunuskreis county. It is the 13th largest town in Hesse. In 2011, the town hosted the 51st Hessentag state festival.
Eschborn is a town in the Main-Taunus district, Hesse, Germany. It is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and has a population of 21,488 (2018). Eschborn is home to numerous corporations due to its proximity to Frankfurt and relatively low business tax rate.
Rüdesheim am Rhein is a German winemaking town in the Rhine Gorge, and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in this region. It lies in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt, Hessen. Known as Rüdesheim, it is officially Rüdesheim am Rhein, to distinguish it from Rüdesheim an der Nahe. It is a major tourist attraction, especially for foreign visitors.
Lorch am Rhein is a small town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. It belongs to the Rhine Gorge World Heritage Site.
Hünfelden is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hünfelden lies on the Hühnerstraße, an historic part of Bundesstraße 417.
Steinbach is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis that borders Frankfurt am Main to the east. Other neighbouring towns are Oberursel, Kronberg im Taunus and Eschborn. It is in the German state of Hesse.
Weilrod is a municipality made up of several villages in the northwest Hochtaunuskreis lying in the Weil Valley in Hesse, Germany.
Allendorf (Eder) (German:[ˈaləndɔʁf] ) is a municipality which situated in the north west of Hesse, Germany. The municipality is within the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in a rural region called the upper Eder Valley. The Burgwald range is located west of Allendorf while the Breite Struth hills are in Allendorf's east.
Volkmarsen is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse, Germany. It is home to 6840 residents.
Diemelsee is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northwest Hesse, Germany, and is part of the low mountain region called Upland. Adorf is the seat of this municipality.
Wachenbuchen is the smallest district in the city of Maintal, Hesse, Germany. It is about 17 km east of Frankfurt am Main.
The Wheel of Mainz or Mainzer Rad, in German, was the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz and thus also of the Electorate of Mainz (Kurmainz), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It consists of a silver wheel with six spokes on a red background. The wheel can also be found in stonemasons' carvings and similar objects. Currently, the City of Mainz uses a double wheel connected by a silver cross.
Ringgau is a municipality in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Espenau is a municipality in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is composed of two districts the Espenau-Hohenkirchen, and the Espenau-Mönchehof both are situated 9 kilometers north of Kassel. As of December 2019, Espenau has 5,158 inhabitants. It covers a total area of 13.59 km2.
Heidenrod is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Seat of municipal administration is to be found in the most populated municipal district, in Laufenselden.
Flörsheim (Main) station is the station of Flörsheim am Main in the German state of Hesse. It lies on the Taunus Railway, which connects Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.
Gerhard Menk was a German historian and archivist.
Friedrich Uhlhorn was an honorary professor at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, whose scientific focus was on the history of the State of Hesse and was also known for his work outside Hesse. His special scientific interest was mainly focused on the problems of historical cartography. In collaboration with Edmund Ernst Stengel, he published the Geschichtlichen Atlas von Hessen, which is considered his major work. He also wrote the article Die deutschen Territorien. A: The West, which deals with the West German regional history. Likewise he was responsible as editor for the Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte by Bruno Gebhardt.