Last modified: 2017-11-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Hersfeld-Rotenburg County flag (Germany)]](../images/d/de-rf.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 18 Jan 2014
Description of flag:
It is a red over white horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the hoist.
Source: Jörg Majewski's flags of German counties webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2014
![[Hersfeld-Rotenburg County banner (Germany)]](../images/d/de-rf_.gif)
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 18 Jan 2014
Description of banner:
It is a red - white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Jörg Majewski's flags of German counties webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2014
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided per pale into silver (= white) and red. The dexter side displays a red patriarch's cross (like a cross Lorraine). The sinister side displays a silver (= white) seedling of linden tree having three leaves.
Meaning:
The dexter half displays the arms of the former Hersfeld County. The "double cross" already appears on seals of the Abbey of St. Simon and Judas Thaddeus since 1217. In the approval the cross was related to Bishop Lullus of Mainz, founder of Hersfeld Monastery around 770. The powerful Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld was parted away from the city of Hersfeld in 1373 and was dissolved during the Protestant reformation in Germany. The territory was administrated by Hesse since 1606 and finally incorporated in 1648. The sinister side displays a modified version of the arms of the city of Rotenburg and is representing the former Rotenburg County. Both counties merged on 1 August 1972.
Source: Stadler 1964, pp.45/78
Flag and banner were approved on 10 September 1976. The coat of arms was approved on 29 March 1976.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Jan 2014
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