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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler city]](../images/d/de-aw-bn_.gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
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It is a yellow-red vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.
Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
Shield parted per pale; at dexter Gules an eagle Argent; at sinister Or a lion rampant Sable, armed and tongued Gules; over all in base a coronet in counterchanged tinctures.
Meaning:
The eagle is alluding to the Counts of Are, who ruled Ahrweiler between 110 and 1246. The sinister half displays the arms of the Dukes of Jülich, local rulers until 1614. The coronet is taken from the canting arms of the Lordship of Landskron, to which belonged the boroughs of Heimersheim, Heppingen, Gimmigen, Kirchdaun and Lohrsdorf.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
Banner and were approved on 15 October 1971 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Koblenz.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
![[Ahrweiler borough banner w/ CoA]](../images/d/de-aw-bn-aw_.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
It was a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms was shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
![[Ahrweiler borough banner wo/ CoA]](../images/d/de-aw-bn-aw0_.gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
It was a white-red vertical bicolour.
Source: city archive, Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD and Stadler 1966, p.11
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
Shield parted per fess, above Argent parted by a cross Sable, beneath Gules an eagle Argent.
Meaning:
The pattern is known by seals. prints existed since 1365. The pattern remained the same. A former court seal from 1323 dislayed both charges doubled in a quartered shield. The eagle displays the family arms of the Counts of Are, local rulers of village and county between 1100 and 1246. The county was bequeathed to the Archbishopric of Köln, represented in the arms by the black cross. Its Archbishop Konrad of Are-Hochstaden granted city rights in 1248. The city belonged to the archbishopric until 1794, when it was ceded to France. Ahrweiler had been one of the capitals of the archbishopric besides Bonn, Neuss and Andernach.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.11
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
Banner and arms are traditional.
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
![[Bad Neuenahr borough banner]](../images/d/de-aw-bn-bn_.gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
It was a black-yellow vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.
Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
Shield Azure on basement Or a well Sable with effervescent fountain Argent; mantled Or, at dexter charged with an eagle Sable armed and tongued Gules, at sinister charged with a lion rampant Sable armed and tongued Gules.
Meaning:
The old name of the borough had been Wadenheim until 1875. It had been capital of the County of Neuenare. The counts were succeeded by the Dukes of Jülich, who ruled the county until 1614. A local court seal, made around 1546, already displayed the eagle, representing the counts, and the lion, representing the dukes. The symbol in base is symbolising the mineral spa, which had been discovered in 1853. Neuenahr gained the title of a spa in 1927 and of a city in 1951. The basement before had been silver, as silver and black had been the tinctures of Preußen, to which the village belonged until 1816.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.15
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
Banner and arms are traditional.
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
![[Heimersheim borough banner]](../images/d/de-aw-bn-hh_.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,
It was a white-red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms was shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
Shield Or a lion rampant Sable armed and tongued Gules, in sinister chief an eagle Sable armed and tongued Gules.
Meaning:
The arms are based on a local parish seal from approx. 1350. The lion displays the arms of the Dukes of Jülich, who began to acquire the Ahr valley since the 14th century. The eagle is the German imperial eagle, he is alluding to the fact that south of the village had been a royal estate. The region remained an imperial dominion until the end of the 14th century. As a result the village had the epithet "in the empire" or "in the realm" (German: im Reich).
Source: city archive, Stadler 1966, p.33
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
Banner and arms were traditional, they were abolished on 7 June 1969.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jan 2023
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