City flag
The city or municipality flag is a municipal jurisdiction icon .
In Europe in the Middle Ages, a city was granted the right to have its own coat of arms with its town charter . The city colors and thus also the design of the flag were mostly derived from it ( see also coat of arms banner ). Well-known examples of city flags in the Middle Ages were the flags of the Hanseatic cities .
Over time, more and more municipal flags were set by ordinances and coats of arms. Today, municipal flags are common in many countries around the world as a sign of administrative sovereignty.
City of Salzkotten , Germany
literature
- Gerold Anrich, Adrian Cornford, Gudrun Cornford: The flag book: The history of the most important flags in the world . Ravensburg 1978, ISBN 3-473-35509-6 .