List of municipal flags of Western Germany

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This page lists the municipal flags of Western 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

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cities

MunicipalityFlagCoat of armsEnactment DateDescriptionRef.
Aachen Flag de-city of Aachen.svg
DEU Aachen COA.svg 16th centuryA black-yellow horizontal striped flag. The coats of arms has a black eagle on a gold background in its coat of arms to represent its connection to other cities in the imperial era. [1] [2]
Bergisch Gladbach Flagge Bergisch Gladbach.svg
Flagge Bergisch Gladbach alternativ.svg

DEU Bergisch Gladbach COA.svg 6 April 1977A green-white horizontal striped flag with the coat of arms. A variant of the flag consist of two green stripes on the top and bottom with a white stripe in the middle. The coat of arms features the Bergische Lion. It is the heraldic animal of the county or the duchy of Berg, which had possessions in the area very early on. He was also seen in the old Bergisch Gladbach coat of arms. The deer head is taken from the old Bensberg coat of arms and is intended to point to the forest, which played an important role in Bensberg throughout history. The changing centre beam, taken from the historical coat of arms of the Counts of Berg, is intended to point to the Bergisches Land and connect the symbols of both cities. It was also already depicted in the old Bergisch Gladbach coat of arms. [3]

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Cities

Towns and villages

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Cities

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rhineland-Palatinate</span> State in Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate is a western state of Germany. It covers 19,846 km2 (7,663 sq mi) and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by France, Luxembourg and Belgium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Westerwald</span> Mountain range in Germany

The Westerwald is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif. Its highest elevation, at 657 m above sea level, is the Fuchskaute in the High Westerwald.

Bernkastel-Wittlich is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg and Bitburg-Prüm.

Birkenfeld is a district (Landkreis) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is the town of Birkenfeld. It is bounded by the districts of Sankt Wendel (Saarland), Trier-Saarburg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhein-Hunsrück, Bad Kreuznach and Kusel.

Mayen-Koblenz is a district (Kreis) in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Ahrweiler, Neuwied, Westerwaldkreis, district-free Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Rhein-Hunsrück, Cochem-Zell, and Vulkaneifel.

Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis is a district in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The neighbouring districts are Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Mainz-Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell.

Roth may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rhin-et-Moselle</span>

Rhin-et-Moselle was a department of the First French Republic and First French Empire in present-day Germany. It was named after the rivers Rhine and Moselle. It was formed in 1797, when the left bank of the Rhine was annexed by France. Until the French occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Archbishopric of Trier, and the Electorate of the Palatinate. Its territory is now part of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. Its capital was Koblenz.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roxheim</span> Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Roxheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe. Roxheim is a winegrowing village.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sankt Katharinen, Bad Kreuznach</span> Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Sankt Katharinen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bad Münster am Stein station</span>

Bad Münster am Stein station is a station at a railway junction in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, a district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station building, dating from about 1910, is protected as a monument. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station is located in the network of the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund and belongs to fare zone 401. Its address is: Berliner Straße 20.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Altenglan station</span>

Altenglan station is the station of the village of Altenglan in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. and has two platforms and sidings. The station is located in the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 45.

Alte Burg, Alteburg or Burgstall Alte Burg refers to the name or nickname of various castles, castle ruins, castle sites and hillforts or ringworks:

<i>Rhein-Zeitung</i> German daily broadsheet newspaper

The Rhein-Zeitung (RZ) is a regional German daily broadsheet newspaper published in Koblenz by Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH and distributed across Rhineland-Palatinate. In five districts, the editions are unchanged for the respective district; in the districts of Altenkirchen, Neuwied, Mayen-Koblenz and the Rhein-Lahn district, the Rhein-Zeitung appears in two spatially differentiated versions.

References

  1. "§ 3 Absatz 2 der Hauptsatzung der Stadt Aachen" (PDF). Aachen.
  2. "Wappen der Stadt Aachen". Aachen.
  3. "Hauptsatzung der Stadt Bergisch Gladbach". Bergisch Gladbach.

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