Last modified: 2017-11-13 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Borken (Hessen) city banner]](../images/d/de-hr-bo_.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 23 Oct 2006
Banner:
It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
inhabitants: 12,633
Werra-Meißner County
Kassel District , state Hesse
banner approved on 12 December 1951
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 23 Oct 2006
![[Borken (Hessen) old banner]](../images/d/de-hr-bo950_.gif)
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 23 Oct 2006
It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
Jörg Majewski, 23 Oct 2006
Shield Argent, a lion rampant Gules, armed Or and charged with a 6-point star Argent upon his breast.
Meaning:
The oldest known seal of the city from the late 14th century with prints since 1429 already displays a lion. In later seals it is obvious that the lion is the lion barry of Hesse. In the late 19th and middle of the 20th century the lion was still shown as the lion of Hesse. The city, on the other hand, used itself often a red lion in a blue field in literature from the 17th and 18th century. (see image of old banner) In 1951 the star was added as symbol of the Counts of Ziegenhain, rulers in the early middle ages. The addition of many municipalities in the 1970s did not change the arms.
The arms were approved in 1951
Source: Stadler 1967, p.24
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 June 2017
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