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Comprehensive Municipality Salzhausen (Germany)

Samtgemeinde Salzhausen, Kreis Harburg, Lower Saxony

Last modified: 2015-08-13 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Samtgemeinde Salzhausen] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Nov 2008 See also:

Comprehensive Municipality of Salzhausen

Salzhausen consists of the municipalities Eyendorf , Garlstorf, Garstedt, Gödenstorf, Salzhausen proper, Toppenstedt, Vierhöfen and Wulfsen.

SG Salzhausen Flag

Description of flag:
The ratio of flag is 3:5. It is a horizontal yellow over blue over yellow triband. The ratio of stripes is 1:3:1. In the centre of the blue stripe is the coat of arms of the comprehensive municipality.
Source: Stefan Schwoon's database
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Nov 2008

SG Salzhausen Coat of Arms

[Samtgemeinde Salzhausen CoA]] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Nov 2008

Description of coat of arms: The shield is divided per pall reversed. All fields are golden (=yellow). In the first field is a black wheel of a watermill with twelve spokes. In the second field is a black horse forcene. In the third field is a red tower with a blue roof.
Meaning: The tower is that one of the local church of St.John, erected in 1643. The black horse and the wheel are probably taken from the coat of arms of Luhmühlen. Luhmühlen is part of the municipality of Salzhausen.
Source: Stefan Schwoon's database
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Nov 2008

Municipality of Garstedt

Garstedt Municipal Flag

[Municipality of Garstedt (Lower Saxony, Germany)] image by António Martins Garstedt is a small town southeast of Hamburg, Kreis Harburg. On this webpage [broken link] of the independent voters (Unabhängige Wählergemeinschaft) of Garstedt appear the flag and coat-of-arms. The flag is a green - white - green triband with arms in the middle of the white stripe.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Feb 2000

Garstedt Coat of Arms

[Garstedt coat-of-arms (Lower Saxony)] image from this webpage [broken link]. The coat-of-arms is canting, as spear in old Germanic was gar.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Feb 2000

Municipality of Salzhausen

Salzhausen Municipal Flag

[Salzhausen flag] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Oct 2008

Description of flag:
It is a horizontal red over yellow over red triband with the coat of arms in its centre.

Salzhausen Coat of Arms


Description of coat of arms:
In a golden (=yellow) field is a red tower with a blue roof and an inescutcheon at the base. The inescutcheon shows in a golden (=yellow) field a blue rampant lion surrounded by eight red hearts.
Meaning: The tower is that one of the local church of St.John, erected in 1643. The inescutcheon shows the coat of arms of the Welfen kin. The flag was granted in 1929, accompanied by the words: "Welfen’s loyalty surrounded by the love of their Lower Saxonians", for yellow was the colour of the Welfen kin and red the colour of the Lower Saxonians.
Source: information provided by Dr. Reineke, retired honorary archivist of the municipality.
In 1972 the smaller villages of Luhmühlen, Putensen and Oelstorf merged with Salzhausen and Salzhausen became part of the comprehensive municipalty of the same name.
Source: I spotted this flag in front of a pharmacy in Salzhausen on 25 October 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Oct 2008

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