Last modified: 2017-11-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Lorch (Rheingau) city banner]](../images/d/de-rs-lo_.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 17 Aug 2006
Banner:
It is a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
inhabitants 4,211
Rheingau-Taunus County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
city formed newly on 1 October 1971 by Lorch and 5 more villages
banner approved on 29 January 1983
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 17 Aug 2006
Shield parted per pale, at dexter Gules two wheels Argent in pale connected by a rectangle Or, at sinister Argent a sword Gules in pale pointing downwards.
Meaning:
The double wheel is either representing the Archbishops of Mainz as former rulers or Lorch proper. The sword is representing Lorchhausen, which had been incorporated in 1971.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 May 2017
![[Lorch borough flag]](../images/d/de-rs-lo-lc_.gif)
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 17 Aug 2006
Banner:
It is a yellow-red-white vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
incorporated on 1 October 1970
Rheingau-Taunus County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
banner approved on
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 17 Aug 2006
Shield Argent with base Gules, charged with a 6-spokes wheel Argent, above St. Martin and the beggar.
Meaning:
The wheel in the lower part is also taken from the arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz, to which the city historically belonged. The oldest seal of a lay judge, known from 1277, as well as a municipal seal from 1300 both display the wheel only. St. Martin, the patron saint of the municipality and of the Archbishopric of Mainz, appears on the 3rd municipal seal and a lay judge's seal from 1325, also containing the wheel. The arms are based on this seal. The wheel was the actual wheel, displayed on a boundary stone from 1462, and displayed as the typical doubled wheel in 1531. All later seals display the current combination, but sometimes the wheel is also displayed as the typical double-wheel of Mainz. Lorch gained city rights in 1885.
The arms were approved in 1908.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.63
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 May 2017
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