Nordhorn City (Germany)

Stadt Nordhorn, Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim, Lower Saxony

Last modified: 2017-08-26 by klaus-michael schneider
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Nordhorn City

Nordhorn Flag

It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour
Source: Hanns Fettweis: "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989.
Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007

Nordhorn Banner

It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour
Source: Hanns Fettweis: "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989.
Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007

Nordhorn Flag with Coat of Arms

It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Hanns Fettweis: "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017

Nordhorn Banner with Coat of Arms

It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour with arms, probably shifted to the top.
Source: Stadler 1970, p.62
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017

Plain Flag reported 1891

The ratio is given as 1:2. It was a red over yellow horizontal bicolour. The information is confirmed by Stadler 1970, p.62 as banner.
Source:H.Ahrens "Hannoversche Landschafts-und Städtewappen", 1891, plate XX
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Nov 2011

Coat of Arms

Shield Gules, a hunting horn Or surrounded by 13 balls Or.
Meaning:
Nordhorn had been a market town for for a long time and gained city rights in 1379 by Count Bernd of Bentheim. Already the first city seal from the 15th century displayed the current pattern with 17 complete and two half balls, as so called "Bentheim Pennies" often considered to be bezants. The balls are taken from the arms of the Bentheim kin. The horn is a canting element. In the 17th century a new seal displayed the shield topped by a coronet and with two additional lions as supporters. Otto Hupp designed the current pattern, reduced however the number of balls to 13, in order to distinguish the arms from those of the counts.
The arms were officially confirmed in 1940.
Source: Stadler 1970, p.62
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017

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