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Prenzlau City (Germany)

Stadt Prenzlau, Landkreis Uckermark, Brandenburg

Last modified: 2019-05-29 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Prenzlau city flag] 3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005 See also:

Prenzlau City

Prenzlau Flag

It is a red-white-red horizontal triband with ratio of stripes 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the white stripe.
Sources: city website and Stefan Schwoon's database
Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005

Prenzlau Banner

[Prenzlau city banner] 5:3 image by Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005

It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the white stripe and shifted to the top.
Sources: city website and Stefan Schwoon's database
Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005

Prenzlau old Flag

[Prenzlau old flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2019

It was a blue-white-red plain tricolour.
Source: Deutsches Städtebuch 1939, section 12
Stefan Schwoon, 31 Mar 2005

Prenzlau Coat of Arms

[Prenzlau city CoA] image by Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005

Shield parted per fess; above Argent an eagle Gules, his head covered by a helmet Or; beneath Gules a swan Argent najant on top of the base wavy Azure.
Meaning: city website and Stefan Schwoon's database
Prenzlau today is the seat of Uckermark County, the largest county in Germany. A settlement of the Dukes of Pomerania existed since 1128, a market and a church since 1188. 1250 the Margraves of Brandenburg acquired the market town. In 1287 city walls were established, and since then the settlement probably had been a city. 1685 Huguenots settled down here. At the end of the 13th century city seals displayed just the eagle of the Margraves of Brandenburg. The helmet is reminding on an episode from 1425. The two mayors of the city surrendered and overhanded the city to the Pomeranians. Next year the margraves regained the city and the mayors had been beheaded. The eagle of Brandenburg since then had a helmet as a mark of abatement. The shape and colour of the helmet changed in the past. The lower half of the shield was added in 1705 by Prussian King Friedrich I, who hunted swans in the region.
Source: Bensing et alii 1984; p.357
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2019 and Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005

Flag, banner and arms were approved on 30 Apr 2003
Jörg Majewski, 31 Mar 2005

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