County and Municipal Flags (Brandenburg, Germany)

Landkreis- und Gemeindeflaggen in Brandenburg

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• County Flags (Landkreisflaggen)
• County-Free City Flags (Flaggen Landkreisfreier Städte)
• Flags of former Counties (Flaggen ehemaliger Landkerise)
• Introduction to Municipal Flags in Brandenburg

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County Flags (Landkreisflaggen)

• Barnim County [BN] (Landkreis Barnim) - Barnim cities and municipalities
• Dahme-Spreewald County [DS] (Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald) - Dahme-Spreewald cities and municipalities
• Elbe-Elster County [EE] (Landkreis Elbe-Elster) - Elbe-Elster cities and municipalities
• Havelland County [NA] (Landkreis Havelland) - Havelland cities and municipalities
• Märkisch-Oderland County [MO] (Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland) - Märkisch-Oderland cities and municipalities
• Oberhavel County [OR] (Landkreis Oberhavel) - Oberhavel cities and municipalities
• Oberspreewald-Lausitz County [OB] (Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz) - Oberspreewald-Lausitz cities and municipalities
• Oder-Spree County [BS] (Landkreis Oder-Spree) - Oder-Spree cities and municipalities
• Ostprignitz-Ruppin County [OP] (Landkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin) - Ostprignitz-Ruppin cities and municipalities
• Potsdam-Mittelmark County [PM] (Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark) - Potsdam-Mittelmark cities and municipalities
• Prignitz County [PG] (Landkreis Prignitz) - Prignitz cities and municipalities
• Spree-Neiße County [CA] (Landkreis Spree-Neiße) - Spree-Neiße cities and municipalities
• Teltow-Fläming County [TF] (Landkreis Teltow-Fläming) - Teltow-Fläming cities and municipalities
• Uckermark County [UM] (Landkreis Uckermark) - Uckermark cities and municipalities

County-Free City Flags (Flaggen Landkreisfreier Städte)

• Brandenburg city (Stadt Brandenburg)
• Cottbus city (Stadt Cottbus)
• Frankfurt (Oder) city (Stadt Frankfurt (Oder))
• Potsdam city (Landeshauptstadt Potsdam)

Flags of former Counties

• Bad Freienwalde County (Landkreis Bad Freienwalde)
• Herzberg County (Landkreis Herzberg)
• Kyritz County (Landkreis Kyritz)
• Lübben County (Landkreis Lübben)
• Perleberg County (Landkreis Perleberg)
• Beeskow County (Landkreis Beeskow)

Introduction to Municipal Flags in Brandenburg

The first five issues of Der Flaggenkurier featured a series by Erwin Günther about city flags in East Germany. The first four parts covered cities in Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. Part 1, the first one dealing with Brandenburg, is Günther 1995 (Erwin Günther, Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (1): Land Brandenburg, in Der Flaggenkurier, no. 1, 1995, pp. 11-17) and is available online (German text only).
Part 2, also dealing with Brandenburg, is Günther 1996c (Erwin Günther, Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (2): Land Brandenburg, in Der Flaggenkurier, no. 2, 1996, pp. 11-16).
I sent drawings of the flags to Andreas Herzfeld, president of the DGF, who also manages the Der Flaggenkurier website, and obtained his permission to send them to FotW too. The flags were mostly made by colouring the drawings in Der Flaggenkurier according to the descriptions in the text, therefore my own contribution to these flags is small and only of technical nature.
During the times of the German Democratic Republic city flags had no official status, only unofficial flags existed and were sometimes created for special occasions like anniversaries. Only in 1990 were city flags officially admitted again.
Stefan Schwoon, 13 Apr 2001

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