List of flags in the Rhein-Sieg district
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Rhein-Sieg district ![]() |
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The circle does the following coat of arms : "It shows in a silver shield a blue-crowned and blue reinforced, zwiegeschwänzten red lion, which is supported by the left paw on a silver plate with black beams cross, swinging right a golden flaming sword over his head." ( approved on May 26, 1955) [...] "The circle carries a flag in the colors red and white, which shows the coat of arms in the middle." |
- Important NOTE
- At the time of writing this article, there are only a few flag images, but the placeholders
for hoist flags and
banners. Corresponding placeholders
are also common on the coat of arms lists and a request to find the missing images or to create and upload them.
cities and communes
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municipality Alfter ![]() |
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The municipality of Alfter has a coat of arms, a seal and a flag as a banner
Description of coat of arms: Under a golden (yellow) shield head, inside five red diamonds divided five times from red to gold (yellow) and covered by a golden (yellow) crowned, double-tailed, silver (white) lion. Description of the flag as a banner: Yellow-red-yellow in a ratio of 1: 4: 1 striped lengthways with the coat of arms of the municipality shifted slightly over the middle upwards . |
City of Bad Honnef ![]() |
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The city was granted the right to use a seal, a coat of arms and a banner with a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on January 24, 1973.
Description of the coat of arms: Description of the banner: |
City of Bornheim ![]() |
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The city of Bornheim has a coat of arms, a seal and a banner (flag).
The coat of arms shows a silver (white) latticed red bar in gold (yellow), which covers a fallen black flaming sword on the front flank. The banner shows the city coat of arms in red-yellow in a ratio of 1: 1: 1: 1, striped lengthways in the shield in the white banner head . |
Eitorf municipality ![]() |
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The municipality of Eitorf was granted the right to use a coat of arms on September 17, 1934 by the Prussian State Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. Description of the coat of arms: Divided and split in front by silver and red, with the growing Bergische lion in red in the silver field above and 2 erect golden acorns in the red field below. In the back on the green ground is a silver tower with a red roof and a golden weather vane. [...] The municipality wears a municipality flag. The basic color is white with the colored municipal coat of arms . |
City of Hennef (Sieg) ![]() |
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The town of Hennef (Sieg) has a coat of arms, a seal, a banner and a flag as follows:
coat of arms In red between two slender, silver (white) towers equipped with black window panels, a broad pinnacle tower of the same color crowned by three turrets; all stand on a silver (white) ribbed vault and above a crenellated wall of the same color growing out of the rounded shield. The vault spans a red three-mountain, in the middle of which stands a silver (white) shield with a soaring, blue-armored and tongued red lion holding a blue bunch of grapes in the right paw; the shield is flanked by five and crowned by two silver (white) crosses. [...] banner The banner is striped lengthways in red and white at a ratio of 1: 1, the city's coat of arms on the red strip in the upper third without a shield . Hoist flag Red-white stripes in a ratio of 1: 1, the town's coat of arms in the Obereck without a shield. |
City of Koenigswinter ![]() |
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The city of Königswinter has a coat of arms, a flag and an official seal in accordance with the approval document of the district president in Cologne from July 6, 1972.
The coat of arms shows a silver (white) gate castle in red with two three-strand crenellated towers and a pointed arched gate, which is about halfway filled by a golden (yellow) portcullis. A large shield hovers between the towers, showing a left-facing, double-tailed, blue-crowned, tongued and armored red lion on a split field in silver (white), and a continuous black cross behind. The flag is as a banner: red with the city arms without a shield in the upper half. as a hoisting flag: red with the city coat of arms without a shield, filling the entire cloth. |
City of Lohmar ![]() |
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The city of Lohmar has been granted the right to use a coat of arms. The coat of arms is divided; above in silver (white) with half a double-tailed, blue-crowned, armored and tongued red lion; below in green with a slightly wavy silver (white) drawbar.
The city of Lohmar has also been granted the right to fly a flag. The flag is raised as a banner: green-white in a ratio of 1: 1 striped lengthways with the city coat of arms in the shield in the upper half, as a hoisting flag: green-white in a ratio of 1: 1, longitudinally striped (i.e. along the longer side line) with the city coat of arms in the shield in the middle. |
City of Meckenheim ![]() |
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The city of Meckenheim has a coat of arms, an official seal, a flag and a logo with a word mark.
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Much parish ![]() |
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The municipal coat of arms shows in a divided field: Above a red Bergisch lion, in the lower part a black cock on a green hill, which is flanked by two blue fish in a yellow field.
The flag (banner and flag) consists of the colors white-green-blue with the coat of arms of the municipality of Much added to the word Much in the upper half. |
Municipality Neunkirchen-Seelscheid ![]() |
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The municipality was granted the right to use a coat of arms, a seal and a banner with a certificate from the district president in Cologne dated November 26, 1970.
The coat of arms shows in the upper half of the shield half a double-tailed, blue crowned, armored and tongued lion in a silver field, in the lower half three golden fish in a blue field. [...] The banner has the colors blue and white and contains the coat of arms in the upper half . |
City of Niederkassel ![]() |
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The main statute of the city of Niederkassel does not contain a description of the coat of arms and the flag. Description of the coat of arms: Red above a green corrugated shield base, a silver castle with two crenellated towers, between which a silver shield with a red interchangeable crenellated bar is floating. In red the symbols of the coat of arms without a shield of the city of Niederkassel a little above the middle. |
City of Rheinbach ![]() |
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The city of Rheinbach has a coat of arms, an official seal and a flag.
The coat of arms of the city of Rheinbach shows in the divided field above in silver a continuous black cross, split below, on the left in silver a blue key turned with the beard to the left, behind in red a half silver eagle in the gap. [...] The flag of the city of Rheinbach bears the city coat of arms in addition to the city colors black and white . It is also used as a banner with the coat of arms slightly above the middle. |
municipality Ruppichteroth ![]() |
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The municipality of Ruppichteroth was granted the right to use a coat of arms in a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on November 2, 1970. Description of the coat of arms Under a red shield head, which is set off by a wave-shaped dividing line and contains the words MONS PRAECLARE in silver letters, in a silver field a left-facing red crescent, between which a red eight-pointed cross stands in such a way that the left and the vertical Cross arms touch the crescent moon, underneath the two halves of a torn black chain. The main statute gives no information about a flag. Description of the banner [not part of the official announcement]: The banner shows the symbols of the coat of arms slightly above the center of the cloth. |
City of Sankt Augustin ![]() |
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The city has a coat of arms, a seal and a flag.
The city coat of arms shows in the shield head in silver (white) a striding, double-tailed, blue-armored, blue-tongued and blue-crowned red lion; underneath is a 16-fold field from blue to silver (white). [...] The flag has the colors blue and white and contains the coat of arms in the upper part . |
City of Siegburg ![]() |
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The city coat of arms shows in the lower part a white three mountain with the red mountain lion. Above it stands the Archangel Michael with a golden halo and white wings, white robe and red cloak on a blue background. The coat is held together by a gold coat clasp with a blue gemstone. The scepter in the right hand is golden, the orb in the left hand
blue with gold cross. A golden wall crown is located above the coat of arms. The main statute gives no information about a flag. Description of the banner [not part of the official notice]: The colors of the city are blue and white. The banner shows the city coat of arms in blue and white in a ratio of 1: 1 striped lengthways in the shield a little above the middle of the cloth. |
Swisttal municipality ![]() |
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As a coat of arms in a split shield, a continuous black cross in front in silver (white), behind in gold (yellow) two bars in three rows of red and silver (white).
The community wields a banner on a white and yellow background as a flag. Flags (banners) description: white-yellow-white in a ratio of 1: 2: 1, striped lengthways; on the middle track in full width, slightly shifted towards the bar, the coat of arms of the municipality of Swisttal. |
City of Troisdorf ![]() |
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The coat of arms of the city of Troisdorf contains four 3: 1 floating spheres in silver (white) that are connected to a T by black bars. The balls of the cross bar are red, those of the longitudinal bar are blue. [...]
The flag of the city of Troisdorf is used as a banner or as a flag. The flag shows the colors red-white-red. The colors of the banner are striped lengthways in a ratio of 1: 7: 1 with the city coat of arms in the shield slightly above the middle. The flag has the colors in a ratio of 1: 5: 1 striped lengthways with the city coat of arms in the shield in the middle. |
Municipality Wachtberg ![]() |
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The municipality of Wachtberg was granted the right to use a coat of arms in a document dated April 13, 1971. Description of the coat of arms: In blue a flame-breathing silver (white) dragon The municipality of Wachtberg was also granted the right to fly a flag in a certificate from the District President dated April 13, 1971. Description of the flag: Blue-white-blue, longitudinally striped in a ratio of 1: 2: 1 with a coat of arms . |
community Windeck ![]() |
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The community carries a coat of arms, seal and flag (banner).
The municipality of Windeck was granted the right to use a coat of arms in a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on May 4, 1972. The municipal coat of arms shows a striding, blue crowned, armored and tongued lion in silver (white); below in blue a silver (white) man in armor, wielding a silver (white) and gold (yellow) -shaped battle hammer. [...] The municipality was also granted the right to fly a flag in a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on December 5, 1973. The flag (banner) consists of the colors blue-white-blue in a ratio of 1: 4: 1, striped lengthways with the coat of arms of the municipality (= divided; on top in silver (white) a striding, blue crowned, armored and tamed red lion ; below in blue a silver (white) man in armor, swinging a silver (white) gold (yellow) -shaped battle hammer), slightly above the middle. |
References and comments
- ↑ § 2 of the main statutes of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 203 kB).
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Alfter (PDF; 43 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 4 of the main statutes of the city of Bad Honnef (PDF; 47 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 3 of the main statutes of the city of Bornheim (PDF; 356 kB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Eitorf ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 111 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 3 of the main statute of the city of Hennef (Sieg) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 63 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 1 of the main statute of the city of Königswinter (PDF; 85 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Lohmar ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 63 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Meckenheim (PDF; 4.3 MB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Much
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid (PDF; 49 kB)
- ↑ cf. § 3 of the main statute of the city of Niederkassel
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Rheinbach (PDF; 269 kB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Ruppichteroth ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 39 kB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Sankt Augustin (PDF; 80 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Siegburg (PDF; 53 kB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Swisttal (PDF; 27 kB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the city of Troisdorf (PDF; 2.3 MB)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statutes of the municipality of Wachtberg (PDF; 49 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)
- ↑ § 2 of the main statute of the municipality of Windeck (PDF; 60 kB) (accessed on February 25, 2016)