Last modified: 2017-03-21 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: wathlingen sg | wathlingen | adelheidsdorf | nienhagen(kr.celle) | mace | lion(passant) | kettle | hammer and mallet | mattock | spade | drilling bit |
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![[SG Wathlingen, Landkreis Celle, Lower Saxony flag]](../images/d/de-ce-03.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
It is a green over yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
The shield is Vert, a fess Argent charged with a mace or staff of office Gules in fess, above a lion passant Or armed and tongued Gules, below a kettle Or.
Meaning:
The staff is taken from the arms of Wathlingen Municipality, the kettle from the arms of Nienhagen. The lion might be a modification of the arms of the Welfen kin.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
![[Wathlingen flag]](../images/d/de-ce-03-wa.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
It is a green over yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
The shield is Vert, in base a kettle Or flanked by two wheat ears Or, in chief hammer and mallet Argent crossed per saltire.
Meaning:
The kettle, also called pipkin, probably is referring to the municipality's old age. It was first mentioned 1022, when Bischop Bernward of Hildesheim founded local St.Michael Monastery. The ears are symbolizing agriculture. Hammer and mallet are symbolizing mining, i.e. the production of salt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
![[Adelheidsdorf flag]](../images/d/de-ce-03-ad.gif)
2:3 image by Jörg Majewski, 5 Mar 2017
It is a green over white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
The shield is Vert and divided by two pallets Argent and two barrulets Argent. Between the pallets and the upper barrulet are a mattock and a spade crossed per saltire, both Or and bladed Argent.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
![[Nienhagen (Kreis Celle) flag]](../images/d/de-ce-03-ni.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
It is a green over yellow over green horizontal 3-stripes flag with centred arms.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2017
The shield is Vert and displays a drilling bit Or. The chief Or is charged with a with a mace or staff of office Gules in fess.
Meaning:
The drilling bit is referring to the local petroleum production.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
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