Hamm upon Sieg Associated Municipality (Germany)

Verbandsgemeinde Hamm an der Sieg, Landkreis Altenkirchen, Rheinland-Pfalz

Last modified: 2023-06-24 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Hamm upon Sieg Associated Municipality / (Verbandsgemeinde Hamm an der Sieg)
• Hamm Associated Municipality Flag
• Hamm Associated Municipality Coat of Arms
• Municipalities without proper Banners


• Hamm upon Sieg City / (Hamm an der Sieg)
• Hamm Flag
• Hamm Banner
• Hamm Coat of Arms

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Hamm upon Sieg Associated Municipality / (Verbandsgemeinde Hamm an der Sieg)

Hamm Associated Municipality Flag

It is a red-green-white horizontal tricolour with arms in canton.
Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 11 Feb 2009

Hamm Associated Municipality Coat of Arms

Shield Gules parted by a bendlet sinister wavy Argent, superimposed by a double queued lion rampant guardant Or, armed and tongued Gules, setting his dexter hindpaw onto hammer and mallet Argent and holding a cogwheel of the same by his forepaws, orle Argent charged with 13 pommes.
Meaning:
The lion is taken from the family arms of the Counts of Sayn-Hachenburg, former local rulers. Hammer and mallet are symbolising ore mining, the cogwheel industries, especially ore processing. The bendlet wavy is a representation of the Sieg River. The orle is symbolising the status of an associated municipality. Each pomme, a green roundel, is representing a municipality and city and associated municipality of Hamm.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2023

Flag and banner were approved on 5 November 1970. The arms were approved on 1 January 1968.
Jörg Majewski, 11 Feb 2009

Municipalities without proper Banners

The following municipalities have no proper banners: Birkenbeul, Bitzen , Breitscheidt, Bruchertseifen, Etzbach, Forst, Fürthen, Niederirsen, Pracht, Roth and Seelbach near Hamm.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2023

Hamm upon Sieg City / (Hamm an der Sieg)

Hamm Flag

It is a yellow-red horizontal bicolour with ratio of stripes 2:1 and arms shifted towards the hoist in the yellow stripe.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2023

Hamm Banner

It is a yellow-red vertical bicolour with ratio of stripes 2:1 and arms shifted towards the top in the yellow stripe.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2023

Hamm Coat of Arms

Shield abased parted by a barrulet wavy Argent; above Gules two shelves Argent in saltire with tops shaped like horseheads, under the shelves a lion´s head guardant Or tongued Azure; beneath Azure hammer and mallet Argent in saltire.
Meaning:
The shelves are reminding on Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818 - 1888), who was born in the village. He established Germany´s biggest agricultural cooperative trading including a cooperative bank, which had his name and used the shelves as its logo. The bank merged with Volksbank (= people´s bank), another coooerative bank at the end of the 20th century. The lion´s head is a differentiation of the family arms of the Counts of Sayn-Hachenburg, former local rulers. Their arms displayed a complete lion. The tools are symbolising ore mining in the past. The barrulet wavy is a representation of the Sieg River.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2023

The date of approval of the symbols is unknown.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 June 2023

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