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klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: sankt wendel(county) | bicolour | lion(counterchanged) | inescutcheon | fleur de lis(red) |
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![[Sankt Wendel county flag]](../images/d/de-wd.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 29 June 2014
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It is a red-yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 June 2014
![[Sankt Wendel county banner]](../images/d/de-wd_.gif)
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Mar 2020
It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour with arms shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Mar 2020
The shield is parted per fess into silver (= white) over blue. The main charge is a rampant lion, armed and tongued red in counterchanged colours. On his breast is a golden (= yellow) inescutcheon displaying a red fleur de lis.
Meaning:
The present county of Sankt Wendel has a very complicated history. The county was divided into many small parts, each of these parts belonged to a different territory. Therefore only the arms of the main territories are combined in the county arms. A blue lion was in the arms of the Counts of Veldenz, a silver lion in the arms of Nassau-Saarbrücken. The colours red and gold in the inescutcheon are taken from the arms of Lothringen. The fleur de lis is taken from the arms of the city of Sankt Wendel and is alluding to the county's name.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.102
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 25 February 1965.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 June 2014
![[Sankt Wendel County plain flag (Germany)]](../images/d/de-wd0.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jan 2014
It is a red-yellow horizontal bicolour.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.102
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jan 2014
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