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Königs Wusterhausen City [Sorbian: Parsk] (Germany)

Stadt Königs Wusterhausen, Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald, Brandenburg

Last modified: 2020-03-28 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Königs Wusterhausen city flag] 3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 25 Feb 2020 See also:

Königs Wusterhausen City [Sorbian: Parsk]

Königs Wusterhausen Flag

It is a green-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2020

Königs Wusterhausen Banner

[Königs Wusterhausen city banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 25 Feb 2020

It is a green-white vertical bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2020

Königs Wusterhausen Old Flag

[Königs Wusterhausen flag] 3:5 image by Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001 The flag, a plain green-white bicolour, was first used in 1992.
Source: Günther 1995.
Stefan Schwoon, 10 Apr 2001

Königs Wusterhausen Coat of Arms

Shield Argent, issuant from base part of the northern hemisphere with oceans Vert, continents Or and lines of longitude and latitude Sable, issuant from hemisphere three radio towers Gules.
Meaning:
Since 1320 a castle of the Margarves of Brandenburg is mentioned near the Slavic village (Wendisch-)Wustrow. Since 1375 a namesake German village was mentioned as (Deutsch-)Wustrow. The names were changed to Wendisch-Wusterhausen and Deutsch-Wusterhausen. The name was referring to abandoned land. In the middle oft he 17th century both villages became dominions under direct rule of the Electors of Brandenburg. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713 - 1740) made the village his favourite residence. Since 1718 the villages were called Königs Wusterhausen (= The King's Wusterhausen). The colour of the oceans had been blue probably until 1992. At least until 1925 (painted by Otto Hupp) the arms just displayed a linden with leaves Vert and trunk Or. The towers and the hemisphere refer to the fact that in Königs Wusterhausen first German radio broadcasting started on 22 December 1920. In times of the GDR the towers also stressed the importance of terrestrial radiocommunication for the purpose of connecting peoples.
Source: Bensing et alii 1984, p.232
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2020

The arms were approved on 3 July 1992.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2020

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