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Lubań town (Poland)

Lubań county, Dolnośląskie voivodship

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[Luban flag] image by Gunnar Staack, 3 Nov 2000, upgraded by Pascal Gross, 26 Jul 2009
adopted 1993 See also:

Lubań city flag

Lubań is in Lubań county. The flag was adopted in 1993. German name: Lauban, with (1981) 21,485 inhabitants. It became a city in the 13th century; formerly in Germany, assigned to Poland by Potsdam conference 1945.
Gunnar Staack, 3 Nov 2000

Lubań city old flag

[Lubań city old flag] image by Stefan Schwoon, 11 Sep 2001

Recently the city of Hildesheim, Germany, hosted a meeting of the expatriated people from Lauban, a town in Silesia; its Polish name is Luban. In honour of the meeting, the town hall flew the flag of Hildesheim and a red-black bicolour for Lauban.

The current flag of the town is a red-black bicolour with a white pair of crossed keys. I assume that the plain bicolour was the flag of the town before 1945 and that the Germans of Lauban therefore use the flag in this form. In fact, the "Städtebuch" (Book of Cities) of 1939 names red and black as the colours of the town.
Stefan Schwoon, 11 Sep 2001

Lubań city Coat of Arms

[Luban city Coat of Arms] image from this website.