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Höhr-Grenzhausen Associated Municipality Germany)

Verbandsgemeinde Höhr-Grenzhausen, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate

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[VG Höhr-Grenzhausen banner] 2:1 image by Jörg Majewski, 13 Jan 2012
  • Höhr-Grenzhausen Associated Municipality / (Verbandsgemeinde Höhr-Grenzhausen)

  • Hilgert Municipality
  • Hillscheid Municipality
  • Höhr-Grenzhausen City
  • See also:

    Höhr-Grenzhausen Associated Municipality / (Verbandsgemeinde Höhr-Grenzhausen)

    Höhr-Grenzhausen Associated Municipality Banner

    The banner is quartered of blue and white with centred arms.
    Source: Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
    Jörg Majewski, 13 Jan 2012

    Coat of Arms

    Shield quartered of Azure and Argent a tankard and an orle in counterchanged tinctures, orle charged with four discs in double-counterchanged tinctures
    Meaning:
    The arms are stressing the importance of pottery for the local economy and like the city arms probably are also based on a local guild seal from the 17th of the potters. The quartered pattern is symbolising the three municipalities and the name giving city.
    Source: German WIKIPEDIA
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    The banner was approved on 22 April 1972.
    Jörg Majewski, 13 Jan 2012


    Hilgert Municipality

    Hilgert Banner

    [Hilgert municipal banner] 2:1 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    It is a blue-white-blue vertical triband with ratio of stripes 1:3:1 and arms in the central stripe shifted towards the top.
    Source: this online catalogue
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    Hilgert Coat of Arms

    Shield Argent a tankard Azure above and two pitch pipes of the same in saltire below; mantled, at dexter bendy of nine of Or and Gules a sinister facing peacock passant Azure, at sinister Azure semy of billets Or a lion rampant Or armed and tongued Gules.
    Meaning:
    The charges are three elements of a local guild seal from the 17th of the potters, who made among others tankards to contain cider, which is also the base of the arms of Höhr-Grenzhausen City. The peacock is taken from the arms of the Princes of Wied-Neuwied, the lion from those of the Counts of Nassau
    Source: German WIKIPEDIA
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    The date of approval of the banner is unknown.
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    Hillscheid Municipality

    Hillscheid Banner

    [Hillscheid municipal banner] 2:1 image by Jörg Majewski, 14 Jan 2012

    It is a white-green vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.
    Source: Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
    Jörg Majewski, 14 Jan 2012

    Hillscheid Coat of Arms

    Shield Vert a tankard Or flanked by two smaller tankards; mantled, at sinister Gules a lion rampant guardant Or armed and tongued Azure, at sinister Argent parted by a cross Gules.
    Meaning:
    Together with the Lordship of Vallendar the village was acquired by Count Heinrich III of Sayn. The counts since 1363 pawned parts of the lordship various times to the Archbishopric of Trier, which gained complete sovereignty in 1767. The lion is representing the counts, the cross the archbishops. The tankards are stressing the importance of pottery for the local economy.
    Source: German WIKIPEDIA
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    The banner was approved on 1 June 1992.
    Jörg Majewski, 14 Jan 2012

    Höhr-Grenzhausen City

    Höhr-Grenzhausen Banner

    [Höhr-Grenzhausen city banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 14 Jan 2012

    It is a grey-blue vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.
    Source: Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
    Jörg Majewski, 14 Jan 2012

    Höhr-Grenzhausen Coat of Arms

    Shield Argent three Frankfurt tankards Azure ordered 2:1.
    Meaning:
    The city is seat of the namesake associated municipality. The arms are based on a local guild seal from the 17th of the potters, who made among others tankards to contain cider. That seal was adopted without approval in 1936. It displayed only one tankard and besides the badge of the guild also reminders on former local rulers as follows: a cross representing the Archbishopric of Trier, a fess representing the Lords of Isenburg-Grenzau, a peacock representing the Principality of Wied-Neuwied and a lion guardant representing the County of Sayn. The current pattern was introduced in 1950. Each tankard is representing one of the municipalities, which formed the city established in 1936. Those municipalities had been Höhr, Grenzhausen and Grenzau. The new arms are also stressing the importance of pottery for the local economy.
    Source: Stadler 1966, p.34
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023

    The date of approval of the banner is unknown. The arms were approved in 1950.
    Jörg Majewski, 14 Jan 2012


    Kammerforst Municipality

    The municipality has no proper banner
    Source: this online catalogue
    Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2023


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