City colors

As city colors or municipality color is called the colors of the city flag or community flag . Cities and some communities have had coats of arms and flags since the Middle Ages . The city colors are usually derived from the colors of the coat of arms or the colors of the coat of arms figures and must have a municipal (for example through local statutes ) or sovereign ( state law ) legal basis . Often city signets or city logos are created in the colors of the city.

City flag of Dresden as an example. The city colors are black and yellow

Overview of selected cities with their city colors

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Baden - yellow-red

Eppelheim - yellow-red

Freiburg im Breisgau - white-red

Heidelberg - black and yellow

Heilbronn - red-white-blue

Karlsruhe - red-yellow

Ladenburg - blue-silver

Mannheim - blue-white-red ( not derived from city arms )

Pforzheim - white-blue

Reutlingen - black-red-white

Stuttgart - black and yellow

Ulm - black and white

Bavaria

Augsburg - red-green-white

Aschaffenburg - green-red-white

Landshut - red and white

Memmingen - black-red-white

Munich - black and gold

Nuremberg - red and white

Regensburg - red-silver

Schweinfurt - silver-blue

Straubing - red and white

Würzburg - red-yellow

Berlin

Berlin - red-white-red (black-white until 1861, black-red-white until 1912)

Brandenburg

Potsdam - red-yellow

Cottbus - red and white

Frankfurt (Oder) - red-green-white

Bremen

Bremen - red and white

Bremerhaven - red-white-blue

Hamburg

Hamburg - white-red (national colors)

Hesse

Korbach - blue and white

Viernheim - blue-white-red

Lower Saxony

Braunschweig - red and white

Göttingen - black and gold

Hanover - red-white (until 1897 red-yellow-green)

Oldenburg - gold-red

Osnabrück - black-white-black

Wolfenbüttel - red-white-blue

Wolfsburg - green and white

North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen - yellow-black

Altena - white-red

Bad Münstereifel - red-yellow

Baesweiler - yellow-blue

Bergheim - yellow-black

Bielefeld - red and white

Bochum - blue and white

Bonn - red-yellow-red

Dortmund - red and white

Duisburg - white-red

Düsseldorf - red and white

Eschweiler - black-yellow-blue

Food - yellow-blue

Gelsenkirchen - black-white-green (PR color: blue)

Grevenbroich - red and white

Herne - yellow-black-yellow

Jülich - black and gold

Kaarst - blue-yellow

Cologne - red and white

Krefeld - black and gold

Monschau - red and white

Münster - gold-red-silver

Nettetal - blue-yellow

Neuss - red and white

Oberhausen - blue-white (until 1952 black-white-red)

Paderborn - red-yellow

Recklinghausen - green-yellow

Solingen - blue-yellow

Steinfurt - yellow-red (picture on the left shows an older coat of arms)

Viersen - blue-silver

Wetter (Ruhr) - red and white

Wuppertal - red and white

Rhineland-Palatinate

Ingelheim am Rhein - red and white

Kaiserslautern - red and white

Saarland

Homburg - green and white

Saxony

Bautzen - yellow-blue

Chemnitz - blue-yellow

The public transport in Dresden since 1988 in the city of colors painted (left previous paint, the right paint in city colors).

Dresden - black and yellow

Freiberg - black-yellow

Görlitz - yellow-red

Hoyerswerda - white-green

Leipzig - blue-yellow

Plauen - gold-black

White water - blue-yellow

Zwickau - white-red

Saxony-Anhalt

Hall - red and white

Magdeburg - green-red

Naumburg (Saale) - red and white

Weißenfels - blue-yellow

Schleswig-Holstein

Flensburg - blue-yellow (see Flensburg coat of arms )

Lübeck - white over red (see: Hanseatic colors ; Lübeck coat of arms : yellow and black)

Thuringia

Eisenach - blue-white-red

Erfurt - red and white

Gera - black-yellow-red

Jena - yellow-white-blue

literature

Karlheinz Blaschke , Gerhard Kehrer, Heinz Machatschek: Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the German Democratic Republic. 3rd edition (reprint of the 2nd, revised and expanded edition). VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1985.
Heinz Machatschek: Entertaining heraldry. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1981.

Individual evidence

^ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (ed.): From coachmen and conductors. The history of the Dresden tram from 1872 to 2007. (The 135-year history of the Dresden tram). 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Junius, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-88506-019-2 , p. 269 f.

Web links

[1] Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (ed.): From coachmen and conductors. The history of the Dresden tram from 1872 to 2007. (The 135-year history of the Dresden tram). 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Junius, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-88506-019-2 , p. 269 f.