Neustadt at Rübenberg City (Germany)

Stadt Neustadt am Rübenberge, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony

Last modified: 2017-09-29 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Current Flag
• Current Banner
• Plain Flag reported 1891
• Coat of Arms
• Otternhagen Borough
• Otternhagen Flag
• Otternhagen Coat of Arms

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• Hannover Region
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• Hannoverian Flags reported 1891
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Current Flag

It is a blue over white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Oct 2017

Current Banner

It is a blue-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Oct 2017

Plain Flag reported 1891

The ratio is given as 1:2. It was a white over blue horizontal bicolour. The information is confirmed by Stadler 1970, p.60.
Source: H.Ahrens "Hannoversche Landschafts-und Städtewappen", 1891, plate XX
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Nov 2011

Coat of Arms

Shield Argent, an embattled castle Gules with two towers, having cone roofs Azure, an open port and a portcullis Sable, upon the embattlements a lion rampant Azure, armed and tongued Gules.
Meaning:
Neustadt (= new city) was founded as a city in 1215 by the Counts of Wölpe. In 1302 Duke Otto o Lüneburg acquired the city. The first seal probably is from that time, as the rule of the Welfen kin is stressed by the lion and the circumscription. It displayed two different towers, the lion in base and St. Mary with child, protector of the local St.Peter's church on top of the embattlements. The current pattern is based on a seal from the 16th century.
Source: Stadler 1970, p.60
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Oct 2017

Otternhagen Borough

Otternhagen Flag

It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Hannoversche Allgemeine online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Oct 2017

Shield parted per fess; above parted per pale, at dexter Or two connected oak leaves Vert , a sinister Gules, an embowed wheat ear Or in bend; beneath Vert, a bar Argent over a bar wavy Argent.
Source: Hannoversche Allgemeine online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Oct 2017

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