City of Bad Driburg (Germany)

Stadt Bad Driburg, Kreis Höxter, Northrhine-Westphalia

Last modified: 2017-11-13 by klaus-michael schneider
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3:5  image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Nov 2007
approved 9 May 1973

• Bad Driburg city

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Bad Driburg city

Description of banner:
It is a blue and yellow vertical bicolour with the coat of arms shifted to the top.
Description of coat of arms:
In a blue field is a golden (=yellow) wall, masoned black and embattled. In the middle is an open door topped by a golden(=yellow) embattled tower. In the upper sinister corner is a golden (=yellow) Latin cross.
Meaning:
The image was used upon the seals of the former city of Iburg since 1380. The city used a golden wall in a red field from 1908 until 1973 to turn out the dominion of the archbishops of Paderborn until 1803.
Approved: 9 May 1973 by Regierungspräsident Detmold
Source: Veddeler 2003 , p.333
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Nov 2007

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