Last modified: 2012-08-02 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Warendorf flag]](../images/d/de-wa-wf.gif)
3:5 
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jun 2007
Description of flag:
It is a horizontal 12-stripes flag, consisting of four times white over blue over red stripes. The ratio of the flag is 3:5. According to source the existence of a similar flag can be proved since 1680.
Source: Stadler 1972, p.97
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jun 2007
![[Warendorf banner]](../images/d/de-wa_wf1.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
Description of banner:
The flag is four times striped vertically white - blue - red, an oversized coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.237
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
![[Warendorf plain banner]](../images/d/de-wa_wf2.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
Description of banner:
The ratio is approx 2:1. The flag is four times striped vertically white - blue - red.
Source: this webpage of Gymnasium Laurentianum
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
![[Warendorf hanging flag]](../images/d/de-wa_wf3.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
Description of flag:
The ratio is approx 2:1. The flag is four times striped vertically red - blue - white.
Source: this webpage of Gymnasium Laurentianum
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
Description of coat of arms:
In a golden (= yellow) field stands a red tower double embattled and flanked by ascending embattled walls, masoned black, of the same colour. The gate is open and topped by a silver (=white) portcullis.
Meaning:
According to source the coat of arms is based upon the image from medieval main seal and had been adopted in the 19th century. The choice of the colours, being those of the bishops of Münster, was made later in 1909.
Indeed there existed another coat of arms showing a red fess in a golden field. The fess was superimposed by a black trident. Its existence is proven by a flag from 1680, municipal coins from the 16th century and numerous seals. By misinterpretation of the trident arose the idea of a portcullis, which sometimes was interpreted as a gridiron, a torture instrument and attribute of St.Lorenz, the local patron saint.
In 1952 there was a great discussion in the city. In the end the officials favoured and chose the new pattern.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.237
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Aug 2012
The flag was adopted on 31 Mar 1976.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Oct 2007
![[Warendorf-Freckenhorst flag]](../images/d/de-wa-wf-fh.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
Description of current flag:
The flag's ratio is 3:5. It is a red - yellow - red horizontal triband with ratio 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the central stripe.
Source: this online catalogue
Description of coat of arms:
It is a plain golden (=yellow) shield. The red chief is superimposed by three golden 5-point stars ordered horizontally.
Meaning:
According to source the colours red and yellow are those of the bishopric of Münster, the former sovereign. The pattern is taken from the seal of the lords of Vernhove, a vassal of the bishop maintaining the protection of an abbey of nuns, which had been established in 840 and played the most impotant role from 1495 until 1810. Freckenhorst gained city rights in 1969 and then also the coat of arms was approved by Regierungspräsident Münster.
Source: Stadler 1972, p.41
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jul 2011
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