Passau County (Niederbayern District, Bavaria, Germany)

Landkreis Passau

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5:2 by Stefan Schwoon Coat-of-arms adopted 27th June 1974, flag adopted 17th September 1991

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See also:

• Passau County until 1972 (Landkreis Passau)
• Niederbayern District (Bezirk Niederbayern, Lower Bavaria)
• County Flags (Bavaria / Bayern, Germany)
• Bavaria (Bayern, Germany)
• Germany

Passau county was united during the 1972 municipal reform with Griesbach, Wegscheid and parts of Vilshofen county.

Red-white-blue stripes, adopted 17.09.1991. Sources: Linder and Schmidt 2000, arms image from Linder and Olzog 1996.

Stefan Schwoon, 13 July and 27 September 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The new arms were granted on June 27, 1974. The panther in the new arms is taken from the old arms of Griesbach and Vilshofen. The wolf for Passau and the lozenges for Bavaria were continued in the new arms.

Literature: [presumably Linder and Olzog 1996].

Santiago Dotor, 10 December 2003