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County and Municipal Flags (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Landkreis- und Gemeindeflaggen

Municipal Flags (Gemeindeflaggen):
- County-Free City Flags (Flaggen kreisfreier Städte):
  - City of Dessau (Stadt Dessau)
  - City of Halle (Stadt Halle)
  - City of Magdeburg (Stadt Magdeburg)
- Other Municipal Flags (andere Gemeindeflaggen):
  - City of Aschersleben (Stadt Aschersleben)
  - Municipality of Aken (Elbe) (Gemeinde Aken (Elbe))
  - City of Bad Dürrenberg (Stadt Bad Dürrenberg)
  - City of Ballenstedt (Stadt Ballenstedt)
  - City of Bernburg (Stadt Bernburg)
  - City of Blankenburg (Stadt Blankenburg)
  - City of Braunsbedra (Stadt Braunsbedra)
  - City of Burg (Stadt Burg)
  - City of Calbe (Stadt Calbe)
  - City of Coswig/Anhalt (Stadt Coswig/Anhalt)
  - City of Eisleben (Lutherstadt Eisleben)
  - City of Gardelegen (Stadt Gardelegen)
  - City of Genthin (Stadt Genthin)
  - City of Gräfenhainichen (Stadt Gräfenhainichen)
  - City of Grossalsleben (Stadt Großalsleben)
  - City of Güsten (Stadt Güsten)
  - City of Halberstadt (Stadt Halberstadt)
  - City of Hettstedt (Stadt Hettstedt)
  - City of Ilsenburg (Stadt Ilsenburg)
  - City of Jessen (Stadt Jessen)
  - City of Merseburg (Stadt Merseburg)
  - City of Naumburg (Stadt Naumburg)
  - City of Querfurt (Stadt Querfurt)
  - City of Rosslau (Stadt Roßlau)
  - City of Sangerhausen (Stadt Sangerhausen)
  - City of Schönebeck (Stadt Schönebeck)
  - City of Stassfurt (Stadt Staßfurt)
  - City of Weissenfels (Stadt Weißenfels)
  - City of Wernigerode (Stadt Wernigerode)
  - City of Wolfen (Stadt Wolfen)
  - City of Zeitz (Stadt Zeitz)

See also:

Fläming Region 1990-1991 (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany)
Germany

Other sites:

Sachsen-Anhalt: Kreise at Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website
Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (4): Sachsen-Anhalt (Fortsetzung) (East German City Flags (4): Saxony-Anhalt (continued), German text only) by Erwin Günther at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flaggenkunde's Flaggenkurier website (online version of Günther 1996b)

County-Free City Flags

Flaggen kreisfreier Städte

There are three county-free cities (kreisfreie Städte) whose flags were all documented in Erwin Günther's series about East German city flags (Günther 1996a and Günther 1996b).

Stefan Schwoon, 16 February 2001

Municipal Flags

The first five issues of Der Flaggenkurier featured a series by Erwin Günther about city flags in East Germany. The first four parts covered cities in Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. Part 3, the first one dealing with Saxony-Anhalt, is Günther 1996a (Erwin Günther, Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (3): Sachsen-Anhalt, in Der Flaggenkurier, no. 3, 1996, pp. 5-13). (...)

I sent drawings of the flags to Andreas Herzfeld, president of the DGF, who also manages the Der Flaggenkurier website, and obtained his permission to send them to FotW too. The flags were mostly made by colouring the drawings in Der Flaggenkurier according to the descriptions in the text, therefore my own contribution to these flags is small and only of technical nature.

During the times of the German Democratic Republic city flags had no official status, only unofficial flags existed and were sometimes created for special occasions like anniversaries. Only in 1990 were city flags officially admitted again.

In general, the articles by Erwin Günther give more detailed information about the history of the town, the background and description of the arms, and occasionally on the history of the flag. The paragraphs written by me are just rough paraphrases of the most important informations with regard to the town and the flag, sometimes with additional information.

Stefan Schwoon, 6 and 19 April 2001

The second article dealing with Saxony-Anhalt, Part 4, is Günther 1996b (Erwin Günther, Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (4): Sachsen-Anhalt (Fortsetzung), in Der Flaggenkurier, no. 4, 1996, pp. 17-22) and is available online (German text only) with black and white drawings of the flags. The article contains more information about the background and the history of the arms than the one I give.

Stefan Schwoon, 30 May 2001