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Municipality of Puchheim (Germany)

Gemeinde Puchheim, Kreis Fürstenfeldbruck, Oberbayern District, Bavaria

Last modified: 2015-05-12 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Puchheim municipal flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Stefan Schwoon, 5 Apr 2014
adopted 24 July 2012 See also:

Municipality of Puchheim

Puchheim Flag

Description of flag:
It is a blue over white over green horizontal tricolour. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source:
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2014

Puchheim Flag until 2012

[Puchheim municipal flag 2012] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Stefan Schwoon, 5 Apr 2014

Description of flag:
It is a white over blue horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source:
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2014

Puchheim Banner until 2012

[Puchheim municipal banner 2012] 3:1 image by Stefan Schwoon, 3 Apr 2001

Description of banner:
It is a white - blue vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source:
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2014

Puchheim Coat of Arms

Description of coat of arms:
In a blue shield is a silver (= white) house. The shield has a silver chief, superimposed by two green beech leaves with their stems crossed. Please note, that sometimes black is erroneously used as base colour.
Meaning:
The name of the municipality means "ettlement in a beech forest". Thus the arms are canting. Puchheim was first mentioned in 950 and gained city rights in 2011. The colours blue and silver remind on the fact that Puchheim belonged to the so called ""Old Bavaria", the core area of the dukes from the Wittelsbach kin.
Source: "Unser Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck", Bamberg 1993, pp. 198 f., 219

The coat of arms was approved on 6 November 1963 by Bavarian ministry of interior. The new flag was adopted on 24 July 2012 by the local council. It might be that the old "illegal" version is still in use. Well, most probably it would be used more frequently in its vertical version, I guess.
Klaus-Michael Schneider and M. Schmger 5 Apr 2014

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