Last modified: 2022-07-02 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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![[Tirschenreuth County banner (Germany)]](../images/d/de-ti_.gif)
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image by Stefan Schwoon, 1 Oct 2001
In 1973 the former Tirschenreuth County merged with Kemnath County.
Stefan Schwoon, 7 Aug and 1 Oct 2001
It is a red-yellow-blue vertical tricolour with arms shifted to top.
Source: this online catalogue
Sources: Linder and Schmidt 2000
Stefan Schwoon, 7 Aug and 1 Oct 2001
Shield parted per pale; at dexter Sable a sinister-facing lion rampant Or, crowned, armed and tongued Gules; at sinister Argent, parted by an abaed fess Azure, a demi-dragon rampant Gules
Meaning:
The dexter half is a differentiation of the arms of the Palatine Counts of Rhine, the sinister half combines the blue fess of the Landgraves of Leuchtenburg. The dragon is alluding to the Cistercian Waldsassen Monastery
Source: Linder and Olzog 1996
Santiago Dotor, 14 Jan 2004 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 June 2022
Banner and arms were approved on 1 March 1974.
Santiago Dotor, 14 Jan 2004
![[Tirschenreuth County banneruntil 1972 (Germany)]](../images/d/de-ti-c1_.gif)
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image by Stefan Schwoon, 7 Aug 2001
It was a yellow-red vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.
Source: Linder and Olzog 1996
Stefan Schwoon, 7 Aug 2001
Shield parted per pale; at dexter Sable a sinister-facing lion rampant Or, crowned, armed and tongued Gules; at sinister Argent a wyvern rampant Gules armed Or.
Meaning:
The arms display a differentiation of the Palatine lion , as the county historically belonged to the Pfalz. The wyvern is taken from the legendary arms of Count Diepold of Cham-Vohburg, who founded the Cistercian Waldsassen Monastery. The monastery acquired a huge territory until 1804, when it was dismantled and also used the wyvern in its arms. Most of the county was owned by the monastery.
Source: Stadler 1964, p.88
Santiago Dotor, 7 July 2003
The banner was approved on 19 November 1968 and the arms were approved on 2 October 1957 by Minister of Interior of Bayern.
Stefan Schwoon, 7 Aug 2001 and Santiago Dotor, 7 July 2003
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