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Remagen City (Germany)

Stadt Remagen, Landkreis Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz

Last modified: 2023-01-16 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Remagen city flag] image by Jörg Majewski, 5 Jan 2009 See also:

Remagen City

Remagen Flag

It is a red-white-red horizontal triband with ratio of stripes 1:2:1 and centred arms in the white stripe.
Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 5 Jan 2009

Remagen Banner

[Remagen city banner] image by Jörg Majewski, 5 Jan 2009

It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes 1:2:1 and arms shifted to top in the white stripe.
Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 5 Jan 2009

Remagen Coat of Arms

Shield Gules a double arch emmbattled Argent, held by a centred column and topped by a tower Argent with dome Vert, flanked by two smaller embattled towers Argent, over all in base a sinister facing crowned wolf salient Or.
Meaning:
Remagen had been already a Free Imperial City, when the 1st city seal was made. The city was fortified after 1357, lost its city status but regained it in 1857. The arms are based on the oldest city seal. Its existence is proven since 1221. It had been the model for smaller court seals from the 14th century. After 1253 a tree and two roses were added under the arches. The meaning of the crowned wolf is unknown.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.54
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023

Flag and banner were confirmed on 27 February 1970, but a probably plain version was in use before 1966. The current version of the arms is in use since around 1925.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023


Oberwinter Borough

Oberwinter Banner

[Oberwinter borough banner] image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009

It is a red-white vertical bicolour with coat of arms slightly shifted to top.
Source: Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009

Oberwinter Coat of Arms

Shield parted per pale of Gules and dexter, issuant from base a triplemount in counterchanged tinctures, a grapevine in couterchanged tinctures creeping around a pallet Sable issuant from mount, flanked by two escutcheons, at dexter Or two bars chequered of Gules and Argent, at sinister Gules a coronet Or.
Meaning:
The arms are based on a court seal of Lützelwinter. prints existed since 1482. The grapevine is stressing the importance of viticulture for centuries. The dexter escutcheon displays the arms of the Lords of Tomburg, the sinister one the canting arms of the Burgraves of Landskron.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.50
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023

The colours of the banner are in use before 1966. The arms were approved in 1936 by governor (German: Oberpräsident) of the Prussian Rheinprovinz.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023


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