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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Malchin city flag]](../images/d/de-mt-03-mc.gif)
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image by Stefan Schwoon, 30 Aug 2011
The subcounty has no proper symbols.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Apr 2020
The following municipalities have no proper flags: Faulenrost, Kummerow and the city of Neukalen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Apr 2020
![[Basedow municipal flag]](../images/d/de-mt-03-bd.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2020
The flag has a broad red flag head with width 2/3 of the whole flag and charged with the arms without shield, the flyend has seven alternating red and white stripes.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.280-281
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2020
Shield Gules, a sinister facing rooster passant Argent, armed Sable with two tail feathers Sable.
Meaning:
n 1337 Lord Johann III of Werle-Goldberg enfeoffed the brothers Eckhard, Matthias and Nikolaus from the Hahn family with the villages of Basedow, Gessin and Liepen. The family gained the status of counts in in 1802 and remained owner of the estates of Basedow and Gessin until 1945. The arms are a differentiation of their family arms, which displayed a red rooster in a white field.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.280-281
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2020
The flag was approved 22 September 1999 and arms were approved on 30 January 1998 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Both were published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.150
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Apr 2020
![[Gielow municipal flag]](../images/d/de-mt-03-gi.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2012
It is a yellow flag. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.284
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2012
Shield Vert a horseshoe Or surrounding shortened crozier in pale of the same.
Meaning:
The horseshoe is symbolising craftsmen and farming. The shortened crozier is symbolising that the village for more than 400 years belonged to the namesake Cistercian monastery.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.284
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2012
Flag and arms were approved on 3 July 2003 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.279.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2012
It is a red-yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Kommunalflaggen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1)", published in "Flaggenkurier, Nr. 7/8", p.16-29, edited by DGF
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Aug 2011
Shield Or; on central base point a bull's head caboshed Sable, crowned Or, armed Argent and tongued Gules; on central chief point a cross patty Gules; in flanches two embattled towers Gules with windows Or.
Meaning:
n 1236 Lord Nikolaus I of Werle granted city rights to Malchin. The towers are symbolising a fortified city. The bull's head is taken from the arms of the Princes of Werle. The cross is an ecclesiastical symbol and perhaps alluding to the Bishopric of Cammin, which is not for sure. The arms are based on a print of a city seal from 1346.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.287-288
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Aug 2011 / 29 Apr 2020
The flag was approved on 1 June 1994 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The coat of arms was granted on 10 April 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Both werepublished in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.50.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Aug 2011
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