Last modified: 2019-04-25 by klaus-michael schneider
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It is a green over white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2019
It is a green-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2019
Shield Argent with base Vert, charged with an acorn Argent capsuled Or and flanked by two oak leaves Or in fan; issuant from base an orange tree Vert with nine oranges Or, over all a boar salient Sable armed Gules.
Meaning:
The charges are representing the former independent municipalities. The tree is representing Oranienbaum, the name is derived from "Orangenbaum" (= orange tree). The boar is representing Wörlitz. Acorn and oak leaves are representing Vockerode and its surrounding villages.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2019
Flag, banner and arms were approved on 16 August 2011 by the county administration, published in Amtsblatt des Landkreis Wittenberg Nr. 18/2011, p.3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Mar 2019
The colours were orangy yellow and dark green, granted in 1896 by Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt.
Source: Anhaltischer Staats-Anzeiger, edition 7.11.1896, Dessau
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2019
The colours green and white, granted in 1896 by Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt.
Source: Anhaltischer Staats-Anzeiger, edition 7.11.1896, Dessau
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2019
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