Meerane City (Germany)

Stadt Meerane, Landkreis Zwickau, Sachsen

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• Meerane Coat of Arms

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Meerane City

Meerane Banner

It is a white-red vertical bicolour with centred coat of arms.
Sources: this online catalogue and §2(3) of Hauptsatzung version 3 July 1997
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2022

Meerane Banner reported 1936

It was a white-red vertical bicolour with coat of arms in canton.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole in Sachsen und seinen Stadt- und Landkreisen", Goslar 2001, p.73
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2022

Meerane Coat of Arms

Shield Gules a Baroque building Argent with three stroreys, beneath a wall emabttled masoned Sable with open portcullis and topped by four turrets Argent with window Gules and roof Azure each, central strorey charged with an inescutcheon bendy of four of Gules and Argent and flanked by two more turrets like beneath, top strorey masoned Sable with two windows Gules and topped by thrhree more turrets like beneath, but the central one higher, broader and having two windowa Gules.
Meaning:
There existed a local fortress, which was owned by the consort of the King of Böhmen in 1174. Since the middle of the 12th century the Lordship of Meerane developed, which was acquired by the Lords of Schönburg around 1300 and was untied with the Lordship of Glauchau during the 15th century. Beneath the fortress a settlement developed since the 12th century, which was mentioned as a small city in 1405. Weaving and textiles industries had been the main business lines since the 16th century. The inescutcheon in the city arms displays the family arms of their rulers. The building is alluding to the former city walls and its nine towers, which were destroyed during the Hussite War in 1429.
Sources: Bensing et alii 1984, pp.290-291 and Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole in Sachsen und seinen Stadt- und Landkreisen", Goslar 2001, p.73
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2022

The banner is in use since 1990. The arms were adopted on 15 February 1897 by the city council.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2022

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