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Oranienburg City (Germany)

Stadt Oranienburg, Landkreis Oberhavel, Brandenburg

Last modified: 2019-04-21 by klaus-michael schneider
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Oranienburg City

Oranienburg north of Berlin is the seat of Oberhavel County. It has slightly less than 30,000 inhabitants. The city is named after Henriette of Oranien, the wife of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg.
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001

Oranienburg Flag

It is red-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue and ?2(2) of Hauptsatzung of Oranienburg City, version 3 November 2008
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001

Oranienburg Banner

[Oranienburg city banner] image by Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001

It is red-white vertical bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue and ?2(2) of Hauptsatzung of Oranienburg City, version 3 November 2008
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001

Oranienburg old Flag (1937 - 1980)

[Oranienburg city flag (1937 - 1980)] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Apr 2019

It was a green-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001

Oranienburg Coat of Arms

Shield Argent, issuant from a lawn Vert an oak Vert with eight leaves of the same and four acorns fruited Or, at dexter a sinister facing impending fish embowed Gules.
Meaning:
Until 1652 the name of the settlement had been Bötzow. It gained proper arms in 1548. The current charges already had been in those arms as follows: a red fish symbolising the right of fishery, an oak symbolising the right of wood cutting and forestry, and six bulrushes symbolising the right of reed cutting. In 1937 the bulrushes had been replaced by acorns and the fish turned to blue. In 1980 the red colour of the fish was restored.
Sources: German WIKIPEDIA, Blaschke et alii 1979 and ?2(1) of Hauptsatzung of Oranienburg City, version 3 November 2008
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Apr 2019

The current arms were approved on 26 February 1993. The former arms and the former flag were adopted 1937. The red-white flag colours were fixed in 1932, changed in 1937 and restored in 1980.
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Apr 2019

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