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klaus-michael schneider
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image by Jörg Majewski, 11 Sep 2010
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It is a red-white-green horizontal tricolour with centred coat of arms.
Source: city administration in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 11 Sep 2010
![[Mayen city banner]](../images/d/de-my-my_.gif)
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 11 Sep 2010
It is a red-white-green vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted to top.
Source: city administration in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 11 Sep 2010
Shield Argent parted by a centred cross Gules, 1st and 4th quarter charged with a sinister pointing key Gules in pale, 2nd and 3rd quarter charged with an eradicated tree Vert
Meaning:
A seal was granted to Mayen in 1291 together with the city rights. The seal displayed a castle, probably the nowadays Genoveva Castle, which was finished around 1280 and two keys in saltire at the top. On later seals a star was added. A seal of a lay judge from 1429 displayed a cross having a key on each quarter. Cross and key as attributes of St. Peter were alluding to the Archbishopric of Trier. St. Peter is the patron saint of the archbishopric. The current arms were made by augmenting the seals by canting trees of May, which probably happened at the end of the 19th century. The position of keys and trees changed various times during the following decades. People are dancing around that tree on 1 May every year. In the region that tree is usually a beech, as depicted on the arms.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.45
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Feb 2023
Flag and banner are in use since 1988.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Feb 2023
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