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Grafschaft Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Grafschaft, Landkreis Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz

Last modified: 2023-02-01 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Grafschaft municipal flag] image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009
adopted: 17 Jan 1984 See also:

Grafschaft Municipality

Grafschaft Flag

It is a black-yellow horizontal bicolour with arms shifted to hoist.

Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009

Grafschaft Banner

[Grafschaft banner] image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009

It is a black-yellow vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.

Source: State Archive Koblenz in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009

Grafschaft Coat of Arms

Shield parted per fess, above Or a demi lion issuant Sable, armed and tongued Gules, beneath Sable three annulets Or ordered 2:1.
Meaning:
The upper half is a differentiation of the family arms of the Dukes of Jülich, which displayed a complete lion rampant. The dukes ruled the biggest part of the current municipality. The lower half with the annulets (German:Ringe) is canting, alluding to the former Ringen Subcounty (German:Amt), which was transformed to an associative municipality (German: Verbandsgemeinde) at the end of the 20th century.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Jan 2023

Flag and banner were approved on 17 January 1984. The arms were approved on 28 July 1937 by governor (Oberpräsident) of the Prussian Rheinprovinz for the Ringen Subcounty.
Jörg Majewski, 1 Jan 2009 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Jan 2023

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