Bingen Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Bingen, Landkreis Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg

Last modified: 2018-09-08 by klaus-michael schneider
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Bingen Municipality

Bingen Banner

It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Sep 2018

Bingen Coat of Arms

Shield parted per fess, above Or three bendlets sinister Gules, between them three 6-point stars Gules, on either flank another two 6-point stars Gules, all ordered per bend sinister, beneath Gules a stag statant Or.
Meaning:
Above the upper half displays in the colours of Sigmaringen the arms of the Benedictine Abbey of Zwiefalten, founded in 1098 and secularised in 1802, which owned large estates in the area. The lower half displays the stag from the arms of the Counts of Sigmaringen.
Source: Stadler 1971, p.25

Banner and arms were approved on 31 May 1958 by Minister of Interior of Baden-Württemberg, published in GABl 219/1958.
Source: Stefan Schwoon's database
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Sep 2018

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