Biel/Bienne commune (Bern canton, Switzerland)

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• Biel/Bienne district
• Bern canton
• Switzerland
• IN SALTIRE in Dictionary of Vexillology
  
  
• Das Bieler Juliuspanner (by Alfred Zesiger, 1907, German)
• Die ältesten Siegel der Stadt Biel (by Werner Bourquin, 1922, German)
• Das Bieler Wappen (by City of Biel/Bienne, German)
• Armoiries biennoises (by City of Biel/Bienne, French)

Biel/Bienne

Gules two Axes Argent in saltire.
Zeljko Heimer, 21 December 2001

Canting emblem with the axe (in German also Beil; in Swiss German Biel, Bieli).
The city was originally only German-speaking.

[Julius Banner (1512, source: [b7b42]). –
Freischar flag of Biel (1844 or 1845), with Confederate Cross. The Freischar troops of Biel took their flag also to the Sonderbund War in 1847 (b/w photo, source: [b7b42]).]