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Municipality of Poing (Germany)

Gemeinde Poing, Kreis Ebersberg, Oberbayern District, Bavaria

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[Poing municipal flag]
3:5 image by M. Schmöger, 16 Nov 2006; modified by Klaus-Michael Schneider
[Poing plain municipal flag]
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 June 2014
 
 

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Municipality of Poing

Today I present you the flag of Poing, a neighbouring village of my home in the county of Ebersberg, Bavaria, Germany.
At the homepage of Poing you can read about the coat of arms: (my translation)
"Azure an eight-pointed star Argent between a chevron enhanced Or and a bar abased Argent."
The symbols of the coat of arms, the golden "chevron enhanced" and silver star, were adopted from the arms of the family Prielmair, who had some manors in Poing in the 17th century to the coat of arms of the community. The silver and blue base of the shield shows the close linkage of the community to the Bavarian dukes and princes respectively. The blue filed repeats one more time the Bavarian colours.
About the flag: The flag of the community has three stripes in yellow-blue-white. The flag can bear the coat of arms of the community.
For my image, I used the coat of arms, published on the homepage. Normally communal flags in Germany are used as vertical flags, but I saw a brochure of Poing with this horizontal variation !
J. Patrick Fischer, 2 Dec 2005

The flag is indeed one of the rare Bavarian municipal flags that come in the horizontal variant (own observation and photos 23 May 2001 and 3 Oct 2001). They have a vertical variant ("Banner") as well (own observation and photos 29 Aug 2001).
Most of the horizontal municipal flags I have seen are from municipalities quite close to Munich, in the so-called "Speckgürtel" (bacon belt) (Pliening, Poing, Vaterstetten, Taufkirchen b. München, Neuried, Sauerlach).
My hypothesis is that the municipal administrations see this as a more "official" type of flag that is more apt for these municipalities that have grown considerably over the last few decades. It has a certain "we are not one of those rural communes with their hanging flag" touch.
M. Schmöger, 3 Dec 2005

Poing Flag

Description of flag: Three stripes, yellow-blue-white, with or without arms.
Sources:
head office of Bavarian state archives
Ebersberg county archives
Ebersberger Zeitung (newspaper) editions 10 November 1960; 26 November 1969
H. Sponholz: "Schöne Heimat Ebersberg - Der Landkreis in Bildern"; Ottenhofen 1975; p.209
"Gemeinde Poing - Informationsbroschüre Gemeinde Poing"; Poing 2001, frontpage
photos by M. Schmöger from 23 May 2001; 29 August 2001
M. Schmöger, 19 May 2014

Poing Banner

[Poing vertical flag] image by M. Schmöger, 16 Nov 2006

Poing is using vertical as well as horizontal flags.
M. Schmöger, 19 May 2014

Poing Coat of Arms

[Poing CoA] image from the homepage of Poing.

Arms blazoning : Over a base per fess of Argent and Azure: Azure, a chevron Or surrounding a mullet of eight points Argent.
Sources:
head office of Bavarian state archives
Ebersberg county archives
Ebersberger Zeitung (newspaper) editions 10 November 1960; 26 November 1969
H. Sponholz: "Schöne Heimat Ebersberg - Der Landkreis in Bildern"; Ottenhofen 1975; pp.203, 209
Landkreis Ebersberg (ed.): "Landkreis Ebersberg - eine Information",ca. 1997; p.75
Bayern Gemeinden webpage
M. Schmöger, 19 May 2014

Flag and coat of arms were approved on 29 May 1961 by Bavarian ministry of interior

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