Last modified: 2013-06-27 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Langenargen municipal flag]](../images/d/de-fn-la.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jun 2013
Description of flag:
It is a red over white horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: Stefan Schwoon spotted this flag on 28 July 2004 in the harbour area.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
![[Langenargen municipal banner]](../images/d/de-fn_la.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jun 2013
Description of banner:
It is a red - white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Stefan Schwoon spotted this banner on 28 July 2004 at the local market square.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jun 2013
Description of coat of arms:
In a silver (= white) shield is a red gonfanon with three tails and golden (= yellow) fringes at the end of each tail. The sheet above is superimposed by a bar barry indented point in point of black and golden (= yellow).
Meaning:
Langenargen gained city rights in 1453, lost them however later (no further information given). Langenargen was a dominion of the Counts of Montfort since 1290 and of Austria since 1780. Around 1800 the local authority (Obervogteiamt) used a seal divided per pale , displaying the arms of Austria on the dexter side and the Montfort gonfanon on the sinister side. Bar and annulets at the top were added as a distinguishing mark, because also the arms of Vorarlberg display a red gonfanon with red annulets.
Source: Landeskundliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg
Flag and banner coat of arms were approved on 24 June 1982 by the county administration, published in GABl 560/1983. The coat of arms of arms is in use at least since the 1960ies, some say since 1899.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jun 2013
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