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8:3
image by M. Schmöger, 31 Mar 2001
White-red-yellow with the arms, vertically hanging variety, as shown on M. Schmöger's Erding County website.
Arms from Stadler 1964, p.32
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Feb 2001
Kreis Erding adopted arms (blazon:
Argent, a horse forcene Gules hoofed Or, a chief bendy lozengy Argent and Azure) on 9 October 1953 (with the approval by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior) and the flag 29 January 1957. It was readopted 31 October 1972 (after the municipal reform). The flags are white-red-yellow with the arms. My image is very similar to flags actually used.
M. Schmöger, 31 Mar 2001
Approved 31 October 1972, according to Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website and M. Schmöger's Erding County website.
The arms show in the chief the arms of Bavaria and are reminding on the fact that the Dukes of Bavaria had one of their castles in the area. The horse forcene is alluding to the fact that
this is the area of Bavaria with the most horses. On the other hand the horse was part of the arms of the Gurrens in Haag, later Counts of Haag, whose ancestral seat - the Fraunberg - is located in the county.
Source: Stadler 1964, p.32
Santiago Dotor, 15 Nov 2001
Landkreis Erding is a county of 871 square kilometers situated north-east of Munich (Erding, the county seat, is some 40 km from Munich). It contains 26 municipalities, two of which are called Stadt (city) [Dorfen and Erding] and another two Markt (market-town), the rest are [rural[ municipalities simply called Gemeinde. The cities and market-towns have traditional arms, all the other municipalities adopted arms between 1950 and 1983.
Of the 26 municipalities all but one use a municipal flag. For rural municipalities in Bavaria there is no long tradition of having their own flags. Thus all these flags in the Landkreis Erding have been adopted after 1945. However, as they are based on the colours of the arms, there are some misconceptions and urban legends in several of the municipalities, as regards the age of these flags.
The municipal flags in Bavaria are usually simple striped flags consisting of the colours of the arms. In most cases the arms is attached to the flag. The place of the arms and its size are not prescribed, but very frequently the arms appears offcentered to the top. Bavarian municipal flags are in most cases used as vertical flags, i.e. flags higher than wide. The two types frequently used are the Banner (a flag with a horizontal bar firmly attached, which is hoisted on the flagpole by pulling this bar to the top) and the Knatterfahne (a flag hoisted like a normal flag, but higher than wide [thus the hayard runs along the long side of the flag]). By the way, one should mention that municipal flags in Bavaria are usually called Gemeindefahne, not Gemeindeflagge.
All adoption dates, unless otherwise commented, mean the date when the appropriate authorities (Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, later the Government of Upper Bavaria) approved the adoption.
M. Schmöger, 31 Mar 2001
As for flag proportions, there is no specification (as usually), so my Landkreis Erding GIFs represent, as far as possible, the de facto situation. A proportion of 8:3 is not too uncommon for municipal
flags, being simply 400 cm by 150cm.
M. Schmöger, 13 Apr 2002
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