Grasleben Comprehensive Municipality (Germany)

Samtgemeinde Grasleben, Landkreis Helmstedt, Lower Saxony

Last modified: 2017-09-03 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Querenhorst Municipality
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SG Grasleben Comprehensive Municipality (SG)

inhabitants 5,013
coat of arms approved on 30 August 1978 according to Arnold Rabbow
Source: Rabbow 2003
Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007

SG Grasleben Flag

It is a green-white-green horizontal triband with ratio of stripes approx. 3:7:3. The coat of arms is slightly shifted to the hoist.
Source: Rabbow 2003
Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007

SG Grasleben Banner

It is a green-white-green vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 3:7:3. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Rabbow 2003
Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007

Shield Vert a bar 10-fold chequered of Argent and Gules, in chief two salt hooks Argent in saltire, in base a plough share Argent.
Meaning:
The arms are a combination of elements from the arms of the single municipalities. The salt hooks are representing Grasleben proper, the Cistercian bar Mariental and the plough share is symbolising the rural character of Querenhorst and Rennau.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Sep 2017

Grasleben Municipality

Grasleben Flag

It is a green-white horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is slightly shifted to the hoist.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007

Grasleben Banner

It is a green-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007

Shield Argent, a bend sinister Vert, charged with a salt hook Argent.
Meaning:
The arms are displaying a salt hook, symbol for the historical salt mining in the municipality. The green colour is somehow canting, referring to grass (German: Gras). The arms were approved on 2 July 1963.
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Sep 2017

Mariental Municipality

Mariental Flag

It is a blue-yellow-blue horizontal triband with ratio of stripes approx. 3:7:3. The coat of arms is slightly shifted to the hoist.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007

Mariental Banner

It is a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 3:7:3. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007

Shield Azure a bar 10-fold chequered of Argent and Gules, in chief two croziers Or in saltire.
Meaning:
Both charges refer to the local Cistercian monastery, which had been founded in 1138 by Palatine Count Friedrich II of Sommerschenburg. In 1179 it became a possession of Heinrich the Lion from the Welfen kin. The monastery was dissolved in 1569. The pattern of the bar with different numbers of rectangles is known as "Cistercian bar". Blue and yellow had been the colours of Braunschweig.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Sep 2017

Querenhorst Municipality

Querenhorst Flag

It is green flag divided by three white bars wavy with an embowed green flaghead, charged with a white watermill's part, having three paddles and three spokes.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007

Querenhorst Banner

It is green banner divided by three white pallets wavy with an embowed green bannerhead, charged with a white watermill's part, having three paddles and three spokes.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 3 July 2007

Rennau Municipality

Rennau Flag

It is an armourial flag.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 12 July 2007

Rennau Banner

It is an armourial banner
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 12 July 2007

Shield Or, a chevron reversed Azure, in chief a hare's head caboshed Azure.
Meaning:
The charges are canting for the name of the area around the three villages in the municipality, Hasenwinkel, or hare's angle. Especially the chevron is symbolising the angle (German: Winkel).
Source: Ralf Hartemink's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Sep 2017

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