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Dębno (Poland)

Myślibórz county, Zachodniopomorskie voivodship

Last modified: 2019-07-13 by rob raeside
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Dębno civic flag

[Dębno civic flag] by Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003

Image based on Guenther's book on flags in the region of the former East Brandenburg, now Northwest Poland. Neubecker 1939
Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003


Dębno official flag

[Dębno official flag] by Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003

Image based on Guenther's book on flags in the region of the former East Brandenburg, now Northwest Poland
Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003


Historic flag of Dębno (Neudamm)

[Dębno official flag] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 June 2019

It is a yellow-red-yellow triband with ratio stripes 1:5:1. In the centre of the red stripe is the coat of arms without shield. Neubecker 1939, p.95
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 June 2019


Dębno Coat of Arms

[Dębno coat of arms] image from this webpage, spotted by Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003

Shield Gules, a lion rampant Or, armed and tongued Azure.
Meaning:
The village Damm was first mentioned in 1262, when Johann I and Otto III, Margraves of Brandenburg donated the city to the Templars. In 1540 Margrave Hans of Brandenburg-Küstrin acquired the village from the Order of St. John and gave it to his wife Katharina of Braunschweig as a gift. She settled Dutch clothiers in the village, who had been persecuted because of their Protestant faith. The settlers established factories and their settlement Neudamm flourished and gained city rights in 1562. Damm itself remained an own village. Neudamm became a centre of the production of cloth and wool during the next centuries. At the end of WW2 the German inhabitants were expelled and replaced by Polish people from other parts of the country, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union. The arms displaying a lion may refer to the Welfen kin, to which the founder Katharina of Braunschweig belonged.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%c4%99bno#Geschichte
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 June 2019