Altes Amt Lemförde Comprehensive Municipality (Germany)

Samtgemeinde Altes Amt Lemförde, Landkreis Diepholz, Lower Saxony

Last modified: 2017-08-19 by klaus-michael schneider
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Altes Amt Lemförde Comprehensive Municipality (SG)

The name of the comprehensive municipality means "old subcounty of Lemförde". According to source it has no proper flag but shares its symbols with Lemförde market town.
Source: §1(1) of Hauptsatzung of Altes Amt Lemförde Comprehensive Municipality, version 20 March 2012
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Municipalities without proper Flag

The following municipalities according to theit local Hauptsatzungen have no proper flag:
Brockum (version 28 March 2012) and Lembruch (version 23 April 2012)
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Lemförde Market Town

Lemförde Flag

It is a green over yellow over red over blue horizontal 4-stripes flag (quadricolour) with centred arms.
Source: (1) of Hauptsatzung of Lemförde market town, version 14 March 2012
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Lemförde Banner

It is a green-yellow-red-blue vertical 4-stripes flag (quadricolour). The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online newspaper, edition 1 September 2016
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Shield Gules, on a base Vert a lion passant Or, armed and tongued Azure.
Meaning:
In 1316 the Lords of Diepholz built a castle named Leuenvorde (= lion's ford) as a protection of the Stemwede Shire against raids of the Bishops of Minden. The lion is a modification of the family arms of the Diepholz kin. Next to the castle a market town developed, which became seat of a district or shire (German: Amt). At the beginning of the 18th century the Duke of Braunschweig fixed the name as "Lemförde", in order to avoid confusions with Lauenförde market town, today a municipality in Holzminden County. Although derived from the lion of the Lords and later Counts of Diepholz the tinctures of the lion are those of the Welfen kin. The flag colours are a repetition of the shield colours.
Sources: §1(1) of Hauptsatzung of Lemförde market town, version 14 March 2012 and Stadler 1970, p.55
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Hüde Municipality

Hüde Flag

It is a blue over yellow bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Shield parted per bend sinister wavy, above Or a lion rampant Gules over an embowed line of the same, beneath Azure a bittern Or with beak Gules and legs Argent.
Meaning:
The bend sinister wavy is representing Dümmer See, a shallow lake, which is actually a low-level moor. The bittern (Latin: Botaurus stellaris) is an endangered and protected species of bird, still breeding on the banks of the lake. The lion is taken from the arms of the Counts of Diepholz, the former rulers. The embowed line might just be a modification of the family arms. The flag colours are those of Diepholz city.
Please note that according to local Hauptsatzung, version 18 April 2012, the municipality has no proper symbols.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Marl Municipality

Marl Flag

It is a yellow over blue bicolour with centred arms.
Source: §1(1) of Hauptsatzung of Marl Municipality, version 17 April 2012
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Shield Azure; issuant from base a mount Or, charged with a lion passant Azure armed and tongued Gules, and crowned by a bell frame Or flanked by four linden leaves Or.
Meaning:
The upper part is representing the local scenery at Thieplatz, the central square, where an alarm bell on a frame, warning in case of fires, is surrounded by four linden trees. The lion and the colours, of arms and flag as well, are alluding to the Counts of Diepholz, the former rulers. Especially the blue lion is taken from the arms of the Counts of Gladebeck, who owned some estates in the area.
Sources: German WIKIPEDIA and §1(1) of Hauptsatzung of Marl Municipality, version 17 April 2012
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Quernheim Municipality

Quernheim Banner

It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the white stripe and shifted to the top.
Source: Klaus Günther: "Neugefundene Kommunalflaggen", in Der Flaggenkurier, edition 1 May 2017, pp.23-31
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Shield Gules, a millstone Argent, pieced by a bendlet Or from behind above to before beneath.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Stemshorn Municipality

Stemshorn Flag

It is a red-white-red horizontal triband with ratio of stripes 1:3:1 and centred arms. §1(1) of local Hauptsatzung, version 16 April 2012, just mentions colours.
Source: Stefan Schwoon's database, based on Hauptstaatsarchiv Hannover (entry 4 January 1987)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

Shield Gules, two quadridents Or in saltire, in base a buffalo's antlers Or.
Meaning:
The quadrident had been an instrument to catch eels, it is also called eel-fork. The forks and the colours of the shield and flag are taken from the family arms of the Lords of Stemshorn. As a distinguishing marks the antlers were added.
The arms were approved on 17 September 1986.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2017

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