Lippe (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Landesverband Lippe

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Marcus Schmöger

• Description

See also:

• Higher Communal Associations (Höhere Kommunalverbände, including Landesverbände)
• Lippe 1815-1945 (Germany)
• Lippe County (Kreis Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
• Westphalia-Lippe (Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia)
• County and Municipal Flags (North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)

Höhere Kommunalverbände (higher communal associations) in North Rhine-Westphalia are a difficult subject, as their territories partially overlap. Part of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe also forms the Landesverband Lippe —former state of Lippe— since 1949. It uses the traditional arms and flag of Lippe, namely the bicolour yellow over red, prescribed in the statutes of 1973. The flag is also widely used by the citizens.

Sources:

• Dieter Linder, The "Höhere Kommunalverbände" in Germany, oral presentation during the 19th International Congress of Vexillology at York (23-27 July 2001) (with permission from the author)
• Landesverband Lippe website

Marcus Schmöger, 15 October 2001