Last modified: 2017-11-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Limburg-Weilburg County flag (Germany)]](../images/d/de-lm.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 15 Jan 2014
Description of flag:
It is a blue over yellow over blue horizontal triband with ratio 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the yellow stripe and shifted to the hoist.
Source: Jörg Majewski's flags of German counties webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jan 2014
![[Limburg-Weilburg County banner (Germany)]](../images/d/de-lm_.gif)
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 15 Jan 2014
Description of banner:
It is a blue - yellow - blue horizontal triband with ratio 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the yellow stripe and shifted to the top.
Source: Jörg Majewski's flags of German counties webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jan 2014
Description of coat of arms:
The blue shield is divided by a throughout cross chequered into red and silver (= white). The centre of the cross is superimposed by a blue inescutcheon, displaying a golden (= yellow), rampant lion, armed and tongued red, and accompanied by golden (= yellow) billets.
Meaning:
The cross is alluding to St. George, the patron saint of the dome of Limburg and to the Bishopric of Trier as well. It should be however a red cross then. The chequered colours are alluding to the Counts of Limburg from the Isenburg-Grenzau kin, which died out in 1407. Without inescutcheon this pattern had been the coat of arms of former Limburg County. The inescutcheon displays the lion of Nassau and is also the 1st quarter of the arms of former Oberlahn County. Both former counties merged on 1 July 1974.
Source: Stadler 1964, pp.57/69
Flag and banner were approved on 12 March 1976. The coat of arms was approved on 18 April 1975.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jan 2014
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