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It is a black-yellow vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is slightly shifted to the top.
inhabitants 11,516
Bergstraße County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
banner approved unknown
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 28 June 2006
Shield Sable a gridiron Or.
Meaning:
The arms display a gridiron, the symbol of St. Lawrence, the patron saint of the municipality. The iron already appears on the oldest known seal from the late 16th century. All later seals displayed the gridiron as the main charge, and thus it was placed onto a shield and approved as arms in 1926. The colours are derived from the arms of the Palatinate, in black a golden lion, to which the municipality historically belonged.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.89
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 May 2017
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