Last modified: 2012-08-18 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Gevelsberg flag]](../images/d/de-en-ge.gif)
3:5 
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jul 2011
Description of current flag:
The flag's ratio is 3:5. It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the hoist.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.392
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jul 2011
![[Gevelsberg banner]](../images/d/de-en_ge.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jul 2011
Description of banner:
It is a yellow - red - yellow horizontal triband with ratio 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the red stripe shifted to the top.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.392
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jul 2011
Description of coat of arms:
In a golden (=yellow) shield is a red gable upon an embattled wall of the same colour. The whole is standing on a green mountain having three peaks. In the cantre of the gable is a golden inescutcheon showing a black cogwheel.
Meaning:
According to source gable and mountain together are canting. (Gevelsberg = gable on a mountain). The inescutcheon is symbolizing the numerous former hammer mills in the area. The colours red and yellow probably have been taken from the counts of Mark, the former rulers.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.130
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jul 2011
Flag and banner were approved by minister of inerior of Northrhine-Westphalia on 15 August 1954. The coat of arms had been granted by the Prussian king on 9 March 1903.
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