Geringswalde City (Germany)

Stadt Geringswalde, Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Sachsen

Last modified: 2023-01-06 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Geringswalde City
• Geringswalde Banner
• Geringswalde Banner 1889
• Geringswalde Banner 1901
• Geringswalde Coat of Arms

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Geringswalde City

Geringswalde Banner

It is a black-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: presentation of Klaus Günther, held on DVT 29 in Hamburg on 16 October 2021
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Jan 2023

Geringswalde Banner 1889

It was a white gonfanon cotised blue with centred coat of arms topped by a mural crown and black circumscription "Stadt" (above embowed) and "Geringswalde (1st line) 1889(2nd line smaller)" (below).
Source: photo provided by Klaus Günther, presentation of Klaus Günther, held on DVT 29 in Hamburg on 16 October 2021
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Jan 2023

Geringswalde Banner 1901

It was a black-white vertical bicolour.
Source: presentation of Klaus Günther, held on DVT 29 in Hamburg on 16 October 2021
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Jan 2023

Geringswalde Coat of Arms

Shield Argent, on green base a boar salient Sable armed Argent in front of a fir Vert trunked Sable.
Meaning:
A village was established after 1150. In 1158 the Lords of Schönburg built a castle and around 1200 they founded Geringswalde as a city. Castle and city were destroyed in 1213 by warfare. In 1233 the lords established a Benedictine nunnery at the same place. In 1261 a new city was founded on another place in the middle of the village of Alt-Geringswalde. The nunnery was secularised in 1542 and its possessions with the city were sold to the Electorate of Sachsen in 1590. The arms are considered to be canting with the fir representing a wood (German:Wald).
Source: Bensing et alii 1984, p.151
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 Jan 2023

The banner approved in 1996. The arms were probably granted around 1590 by the Elector of Sachsen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,

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