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Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark

Københavns Kommune, Hovedstaden Region

3:5, image by Valentin Poposki, 17 June 2020
3:5, image by Valentin Poposki, 17 June 2020

Background
Coat of Arms
Christiania "Free Town"
Proposal by Peter Orenski and Harry Oswald
Copenhagen Subcounty Coat of Arms

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Background

In November 2019 new logo was adopted and new flags also appear on white and blue field. All flags in 5:3 ratio. I couldn´t find photo evidence for any of these flags, but I took information from different sources and some forums, where people ask, why former flag was not in use, etc.
Valentin Poposki, 17 June 2020

Coat of Arms

image by Valentin Poposki, 17 June 2020

The white logo displays the castle over three waves with a circumscription "KØBENHAVN KOMMUNE" anticlockwise beginning at bottom. Valentin Poposki, 17 June 2020

Flag Proposal by Peter Orenski and Harry Oswald

image by Peter Orenski, 7 Sep 2003

Copenhagen has no official city flag. Sometimes used: a logo-on-a-sheet-like rag, probably designed by some advertising agency is used.
Ole Andersen, 14 Dec 1997

Peter Orenski wrote, "As passionate vexillologists, once we found out (to our great surprise) that Copenhagen didn´t have a city flag, we went to Town Hall and spoke with people in the Archive Dept., Library, and Jan Horskjœr´s Information Office, trying to find out:
1. WHY Copenhagen didn´t have a flag, and
2. WHAT the various Copenhageners at Town Hall thought an appropriate symbol and flag for the capital might be.

The Archive Dept. and Jan Horskjœr´s office were especially helpful in providing copies of the Københavns Kommune´s beautiful arms, both the original design and its modern stylised version. After several discussions with Town Hall employees, they agreed that the attached design would be an appropriate city flag. As you see, the proposed flag mirrors the national flag in its dimensions, colours, and hoist-displaced charge -- Bishop Absalon´s famous 1167 "Castle at Havn".
Peter Orenski, 7 Sep 2003

A flag like this has already been seen as a centered logo-on-a-bedsheet printed both blue on white and white on blue flying at the cruise liner quay Langeline as much as 10 years ago, possibly the responsibility of parks department or a public relations firm.
Hugh Watkins, 11 Aug 2006

Copenhagen Subcounty Coat of Arms

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Mar 2003, based on image provided by Albert S. Kirsch

At a souvenir site featuring Danish-themed goodies, I came across a number of shirts, etc., featuring the attached device as the "coat-of-arms" of Copenhagen. I never saw it before; the usual one, dating back to the 17th century, is three towers and some waves etc. A stylised version of that serves as the city´s modern logo.
Albert S. Kirsch, 31 July 2012

It is the Coat of Arms of Copenhagen Subcounty (Københavns Amt).
Valentin Poposki, 31 July 2012

I must admit: I never saw that flag bearing the well known Coat of Arms of the city, and I am in doubt, whether there is a flag of Copenhagen Amt (=subcounty). Local flags in Denmark are only rarely used.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Aug 2012

According to source Copenhagen Subcounty [Danish: Amt] "covered the municipalities in the metropolitan Copenhagen area (Danish: Storkøbenhavn, with the exception of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg. Effective on 1 January 2007, the subcounty was abolished and merged into Region Hovedstaden (i.e. Copenhagen Capital Region)." Source: English WIKIPEDIA
Ned Smith, 2 Aug 2012

Christiania "Free Town"

image by Edward Mooney, Jr., 8 December 2000

Since 1971, there has existed a so-called free town, Christiania, within the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is in practice an alternative society with a liberal view on drugs. It has a population of probably around 1000 people.
Per Iko, 10 Sep 1996
The three yellow discs represent the three "i"´s in the name "Christiania".
Ivan Sache, 7 Dec 2000

The free city of Christiania was founded on 26 September 1971 by a group of hippies, who had settled in the barracks of Badmandsstraede, on the Amager Island in Copenhagen. The Danish Parliament (Folketing) legalised the city in 1989 and exempted the Christianians from laws on heritage and environment conservation. In 1991, a local law made of Christiania a "free zone", open to all, car-free and placed under the responsibility of its inhabitants. Christiania has officially 878 inhabitants, including 150 children. Each inhabitant of Christiania has to pay a monthly rent of 1,600 Danish crowns (215 euros) for electricity, heating, road maintenance, land tax, child-care center, kindergarten, leisure and other public costs. The Danish government has decided to "normalise" the situation of the enclave. A commission made of ten members worked ten months and wrote a report of several thousands pages, without drawing radical conclusions.
Source: An article by Hans Drachmann, originally published in Politiken (Copenhagen), and partially translated into French in Courrier International, #705, 6 May 2004.
A picture illustrating the article in Courrier International shows a dog bearing a badge based on the flag of Christiania. The badge is red with three yellow hearts placed horizontally and the words Bevar Christiania (Bevar above the hearts, Christiania below it) in black.
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2004
An image at flickr shows the flag in use in a pennant format.
Elias Granqvist, 29 Oct 2009

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