Last modified: 2019-12-09 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: maerkische schweiz | buckow(maerkische schweiz) | rehfelde | waldsieversdorf | rose(red) | roebuck | cistercian bend | water tower |
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![[Buckow City flag]](../images/d/de-mo-05-bu.gif)
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image by Jens Pattke, 10 Dec 2019
The subcounty and its municipalities Garzau-Garzin and Oberbarnim have no proper flags.
Sources: this online catalogue and German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
It is a green-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
![[Buckow city banner]](../images/d/de-mo-05-bu_.gif)
image by Jens Pattke, 10 Dec 2019
It is a green-white vertical bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
Shield Argent a heraldic rose Gules seded Or and barbed Vert, surrounded by two hop wreaths Vert with cones Or.
Meaning:
The Dukes of Lower Silesia built a castle in 1225 as protection of German settlers called up by the dukes. In 1252, finally in 1287, the settlement was acquired by the Margraves of Brandenburg from the Askanian kin. It became a market town under the manorial lordship of Leubus Monastery in 1253 and a city in 1416. The arms are probably based on the oldest seals of the city and were adopted in the 19th century with minor differences to the current version. Seals from the 16th century displayed a ball surrounded by beech branches. From the Medieval until the 19th century there had been large hop plantations and breweries on the area of the municipality, in the arms represented by the wreaths. The rose is taken from the family arms of the Manorial Lords of Closter, who had been local rulers in the 16th century.
Sources: §3(1) of Hauptsatzung of Buckow City, version 14 November 2001 and Bensing et alii 1984, pp.66-67
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
Please not that in §3(2) of Hauptsatzung the colours are erroneously described a s white-green.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
![[Rehfelde municipal flag]](../images/d/de-mo-05-rf.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
It is a white monocolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
Shield Vert, on a base Or a roebuck statant Or, in sinister chief a bend chequered of Argent and Gules.
Meaning:
Roebuck and base as field are canting. The chequered Cistercian bend refers to the fact that the village historically belonged to the Cistercian Zinna Abbey since the 13th century.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
The arms were approved on 16 October 1997.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
![[Waldsieversdorf municipal flag]](../images/d/de-mo-05-ws.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
It is a red-white-red horizontal triband with stripes of equal width and centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
![[Waldsieversdorf municipal banner]](../images/d/de-mo-05-ws_.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
It is a red-white-red vertical triband with stripes of equal width and centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
Shield Vert, on a mount issuant Or a tower Argent with fundament Gules, embattlements Gules and port and windows Sable, flanked by two impending linden leaves Or.
Meaning:
The ensemble is a representation of the local water tower, built in 1897, surrounded by linden trees.
Sources: German WIKIPEDIA and this photo
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
The arms were approved on 18 August 1995.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Dec 2019
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