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City of Gummersbach (Germany)

Stadt Gummersbach, Oberbergischer Kreis, Northrhine-Westphalia

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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Jul 2010

Flag without Coat of Arms
Flag with Coat of Arms
Coat of Arms

See also:

County and Municipal Flags (Northrhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen)
County of Oberbergischer Kreis [GM]
Northrhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Germany

Flag without Coat of Arms

Description of flag:
The ratio is 3:5. It is a blue over yellow horizontal bicolour.
Source: Source: §3(2) of Hauptsatzung of the city of Gummersbach, version 5 October 1999, last updated 3 March 2008
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Jul 2010

Flag with Coat of Arms

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Jul 2010

Description of flag:
The ratio is 3:5. It is a blue over yellow horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: §3(2) of Hauptsatzung of the city of Gummersbach, version 5 October 1999, last updated 3 March 2008
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Jul 2010

Coat of Arms

Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided per pale. The dexter side shows in a blue field a silver (=white) spindle with a thread of the same colour hanging down. The sinister side shows in a yellow field a Markian chequered bar (three rows alternating red and silver (=white)). The shield is fimbriated silver (=white), which is not mentioned within the description, and it is topped by a golden (=yellow) mural crown.
Meaning:
According to source the spindle is symbolizing the 19th century textiles industry, the sinister side shows the arms of the counts of Mark. Illustrator Max Reinhardt in source displays the tincture of the spindle as golden (=yellow) and the shield has no mural crown.
Source: Stadler 1972, p.46
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Jul 2010

The coat of arms was granted by the Prussian king on 27 July 1892 and was reconfirmed in 1969 by Regierungsprääsident Köln(?).

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