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![[Lindau County until 1972 (Schwaben District, Bavaria, Germany)]](../images/d/de-by_li.gif)
5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon
From Ralf Hartemink's International
Civic Arms website: "The old arms were granted on November 28, 1956.
The hand (...) was the symbol of the imperial convent of Lindau, which
owned many estates in the Western part of the county. The banner [actually
a Kirchenfahne or gonfanon] (...) is taken from the arms of the
Counts of Montfort, who also held many parts of the county. The waves in
the base of the arms are a symbol for the Bodensee [Constance] lake, on
which the county borders."
Source: Stadler 1964-1972.
Santiago Dotor, 31 Jul 2003
Those new Bavarian flags make an interesting display. I especially like
the heraldic content in them.
Something I picked up through stamp collecting was the fact that during
the Allied Occupation of 1945-52, Kreis Lindau was administratively not
part of Bavaria. It was included, for some reason, in the French Zone,
and formed part of the Land WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern. As such it used the
French-issued stamps of WÃŒrttemberg (discontinued in 1949, when the federal
republic was formed).
In 1952, when SÃŒdbaden (French Zone), WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern (French
Zone) and WÃŒrttemberg-Baden (US Zone) were consolidated into the new state
of Baden-WÃŒrttemberg, Lindau was returned to Bavaria.
This means that from 1945 to â52 the Kreis Lindau also used the black-over-red
Landesfarben of WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern.
Mike Oettle, 9 Aug 2003
It looks like the area around Lindau today is the only non-Baden-WÃŒrtemberger
German coast of the Bodensee. Could it be that by adding Kreis Lindau to
the French zone, all of the German Bodensee coast was brought under the
same, French, jurisdiction?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 Sep 2003
Kreis Lindau was included in the French Zone of Occupation to provide
a land bridge between the French Zones in Germany and Austria.
The exact status of the Kreis between 1945 and 1955 is not clear to
me. According to some sources, the area remained a part of Bavaria and
formed a "land" of its own within the French zone, according to
other sources it had ties to WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern. Does someone else
have a more definitive answer?
Mike's remark brings me to another issue: The official name of the land
formed in the southern part of Baden from 1945 to 1952 is "Land Baden".
Not "Land SÃŒdbaden". The term "SÃŒdbaden" is occasionally
(and inofficially) used to provide a clearer distinction between this land
and the larger geographical entity that is normally meant when speaking
of "Baden".
This page and this
one mention this term.
Stefan Schwoon, 15 Sep 2003
Lindau belonged to the French Occupation Zone, but was still considered
part of Bavaria, therefore having a special status. It was never part of
WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern, and therefore never used the WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern
flag. Quite the opposite: until the adoption of the Bavarian constitution
(defining, inter alia, the Bavarian flag) on 1st December 1946, the Bavarian
flag was not allowed in the American Occupation Zone, whereas the French
had allowed the use of the Bavarian flag earlier (proclamation of the county
president Groll, 8 May 1946). This led to the weird situation, that the
Bavarian Prime Minister,
Wilhelm Hoegner, was greeted with Bavarian flags during his visit to
Lindau, 19 Aug 1946, but he was not entitled to use the flag in his part
of Bavaria.
Source: Wilhelm Hoegner (1959) Der schwierige AuÃenseiter. MÃŒnchen
(Isar-Verlag), p. 262, 273.
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 25 Sep 2003
What puzzles me about Lindau's status is a remark on the web
page of the county, which states that the county sent three delegates
to the "Beratende Versammlung" (advisory assembly) of WÃŒrttemberg
(I suppose that either WÃŒrttemberg-Hohenzollern or Baden-WÃŒrttemberg is
meant).
Stefan Schwoon, 25 Sep 2003