List of municipal flags of Central Germany

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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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Index by state

Hesse

Cities

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Darmstadt Hissflagge der Stadt Darmstadt.svg
Wappen Darmstadt.svg 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 Flag of Frankfurt am Main.svg
Knatterflagge der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.svg
Wappen Frankfurt am Main.svg 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]

Bergstraße

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Abtsteinach Flagge Abtsteinach.svg
DEU Abtsteinach COA.svg 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]

Kassel

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Ahnatal Wappen Ahnatal.svg 15 June 1978A 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]

Hersfeld-Rotenburg

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Alheim Wappen Alheim.png 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]

Limburg-Weilburg

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Weilmünster DEU Weilmunster Banner.svg DEU Weilmunster COA.svg 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]

Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Aarbergen Wappen Aarbergen.png 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]

Waldeck-Frankenberg

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Allendorf (Eder) Flagge Allendorf (Eder).svg
DEU Allendorf (Eder) COA.svg 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]

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References

  1. "Stadtwappen". Stadtlexikon Darmstadt.
  2. "Hauptsatzung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main" (PDF). Frankfurt.
  3. Genehmigung eines Wappens der Gemeinde Abtsteinach, Landkreis Bergstraße vom 6. September 1972. In: Der Hessische Minister des Inneren (Hrsg.): Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen. 1972 Nr. 39, S. 1644, Punkt 1189
  4. Genehmigung eines Wappens der Gemeinde Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Reg.-Bez. Kassel vom 3. Juli 1978. In: Der Hessische Minister des Inneren (Hrsg.): Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen. 1978 Nr. 27, S. 1249, Punkt 792
  5. "GEMEINDE ALHEIM". Alheim.
  6. "Wappenbeschreibung". Weilmünster.
  7. Genehmigung eines Wappens der Gemeinde Aarbergen, Untertaunuskreis vom 29. September 1972. In: Der Hessische Minister des Inneren (Hrsg.): Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen. 1972 Nr. 42, S. 1750, Punkt 1277
  8. Henkel, Norbert (2004). Dorfbuch Allendorf (Eder). Beiträge zur Geschichte einer Hessischen Gemeinde. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte. pp. 32–34.
  9. Genehmigung einer Flagge der Gemeinde Allendorf (Eder), Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg vom 31. März 1980. In: Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen. 1980 Nr. 46, S. 566, Punkt 387
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