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klaus-michael schneider
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2022
It is a green-yellow vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2022
Shield Vert a grain sheaf Or tied Argent and Sable and superimposed by hammer and mallet Sable in saltire.
Meaning:
Böhlen was first mentioned in 1353 and kept its rural character until the beginning of WW1. Since 1921 mining of brown coal developed. In the city a power station and a factory for the production of coal briquets was established. Böhlen gained the status of a city in 1964. The city council at least proposed different arms before 1984. They displayed on a blue shield a golden factory with smoking chimneys and two pipelines in bend and bend sinister of the same, between the pipellines there had been a "settlement" Argent, consisting of 10 houses ordered 1:2:3:4 and three trees. The arms were symbolising the chemical industry and the settlements for workers. On the current arms the sheaf is symbolising agriculture, the tools brown coal mining.
Source: Bensing et alii 1984, pp.58-59
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2022
The arms were approved on 29 March 1993.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2022
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