Hameln-Pyrmont County (Lower Saxony, Germany)

Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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3:5
by Stefan Schwoon
Flag adopted 30th November 1959, coat-of-arms adopted 30th October 1929

• Description
• Hanging Flag (Banner)

See also:

• Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont 1815-1918 (Fürstentum Waldeck-Pyrmont)
• County and Municipal Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Germany

The article by Erich Dieter Linder, Die Flaggen deutscher Landkreise (Flags of German counties), in Der Flaggenkurier no. 2, 1996, pp. 4-10, shows a hanging flag, format 2:1. A horizontal flag version also exists (according to Falko Schmidt). The colors are taken from the arms, the cross from the territory of Pyrmont. Pyrmont belonged to the principality [since 1918 republic] of Waldeck until it was transferred to the province of Hanover in 1922 by popular vote. Flag adopted 30.11.1959, according to Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website.

Stefan Schwoon, 2 February 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The arms were granted on October 30, 1929. The arms show the lion of the Counts of Everstein, who until 1429 ruled most of the county (...). The cross is taken from the arms of the Counts of Schwalenberg, who ruled over Pyrmont until 1494. Later the area was ruled by the Princes of Waldeck.

Literature: Stadler 1964-1971.

Santiago Dotor, 24 October 2001

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2:1 by Stefan Schwoon