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Aarbergen Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Aarbergen, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse

Last modified: 2017-11-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Aarbergen municipal banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 15 Aug 2006
approved 31 January 1973 See also:

Aarbergen Municipality

Banner:
It is a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
administration seat: Kettenbach
inhabitants 6,429
Rheingau-Taunus County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
banner approved on 31 January 1973
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 15 Aug 2006

Coat of Arms

Shield Azure with base fir-twigged Or, in chief a bendy sword and a sinister-bendy key in saltire, both Or.
Meaning:
Acc. to source the base is canting, representing a mountain covered by wheat ears. The sword is representing former Michelbach municipality and the key former Kettenbach municipality. Their patron saints are St. Michael, also represented by sword, and St. Peter, represented by key. The colours blue and yellow are those of Nassau.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage ,based on "Hessisches Wappenbuch", 1956
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 May 2017

Michelbach Village

[Michelbach Village banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 18 Aug 2006
approved 24 February 1959

Banner:
It is a black-white-black vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
incorporated on 31 December 1970 (also see No. 78/236)
Rheingau-Taunus County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
banner approved on 24 February 1959
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski,

Michelbach Coat of Arms

Shield Sable a lance Or in pale, superimposed by a fess Argent, charged with a dragon Sable, garnished Or and exhaling a flame Gules.
Meaning:
The oldest known seals of the village date from the middle of the 16th century. This and all later seals, displayed St. Michael, the local patron saint, killing the dragon. In the above proposal the traditional image was changed to show only the spear and the dragon, to distinguish the arms from many other arms showing the saint.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage ,based on "Hessisches Wappenbuch", 1956
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 May 2017

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