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klaus-michael schneider
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![[City of Wittstock an der Dosse flag]](../images/d/de-op-wd.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Mar 2007
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It is a red over blue (FIAV-code B-) over white tricolour with stripes of equal width with the centred coat of arms.
Source: I spotted this flag on 6 January 2007 in Uetersen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Mar 2007
![[City of Wittstock an der Dosse banner]](../images/d/de-op-wd_.gif)
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Mar 2007
There exists also a banner with three stripes of equal width from left to right(visible) red-blue-white with the coat of arms shifted to the top.
Source: Stefan Schwoon spotted this banner on 3 September 2004 in a local shopping mall.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Mar 2007
It is a white shield with a red city gate. The gate has an open golden(=yellow) door and a silver(=white) railing. It has a red tower on each side with a black window and three red pinnacles each, topped by golden(=yellow) cone roofs. The wall has six red pinnacles. On a golden(=yellow) basement between the two towers stands a bishop, dressed in a red robe with a red mitre upon his head. He spreads out his arms holding a crozier in the right one and an open book in the
left one.
Meaning:
Probably the gate is referring to the city status, and the bishop might be Heinrich I of Havelberg, who granted city rights according to the Stendal pattern on 13 September 1248
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Mar 2007/1 Apr 2019
The arms were approved on 8 August 1995.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Apr 2019