Senftenberg City [Sorbian: Zły Komorow] (Germany)

Stadt Senftenberg, Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Brandenburg

Last modified: 2019-11-17 by klaus-michael schneider
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Senftenberg City [Sorbian: Zły Komorow]

Senftenberg Flag

It is a plain white flag with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 30 Mar 2005

Senftenberg Banner

It is a plain white flag with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 30 Mar 2005

Senftenberg Coat of Arms

Shield quartered, above right Argent hammer and mallet Sable, above left and beneath right Gules plain, beneath left Argent a flag Gules.
Meaning:
Senftenberg is county seat of Oberspreewald-Lausitz county. Probably at the end of the 12th century the Lords of Senftenberg built a German castle as their family seat. The namesake city was finished in 1279. Castle and city became dominions of the Electorate of Saxony in 1448. Early seals from the beginning of the 14th century displayed two shrubs of charlock mustard (Latin: Sinapis arvensis) on a mountain as canting example, as the name of the city means "mustrad mountain". Arms from the 15th century displayed in a golden field a red tower with the Bohemian lion in its open port, on its top is a flag with the crossed swords of the Saxon Electorate. Between 1642 and 1945 the arms displayed only flag and swords. The city is well known as a centre of coal mining (brown coal, lignit) in Lusatia, symbolised by hammer and mallet in the current arms.
Source: Bensing et alii 1984, p.424 and city website
Jörg Majewski, 30 Mar 2005 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Nov 2019

Flag and banner were approved on 10 Dec 2003. The arms were confirmed on 26 March 1947 by the county administration of former Calau County and again on 10 Dec 2003.
Jörg Majewski, 30 Mar 2005

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