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Marburg City (Germany)

Stadt Marburg, seat of Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse

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image by Jörg Majewski, 16 Sep 2006
approved 1972

Marburg City
Marburg City (1964 - 1972)
Coat of Arms
Cappel Borough
Cappel Coat of Arms
Wehrda Borough
Wehrda Coat of Arms

See also:

County and Municipal Flags (Hesse / Hessen)
Hesse (Hessen)
Marburg-Biedenkopf County
Germany

Marburg City

county seat, special status city, a city with more than 50.000 inhabitants

Banner:
It is a blue-white-red vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
inhabitants 78,412
Gießen District , state Hesse
banner approved 1972
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality banners are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.64
Jörg Majewski, 16 Sep 2006

Marburg City (1964 - 1972)

5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 16 Sep 2006
approved 1964

Banner:
It is a blue-white-red vertical tricolour with white bannerhead. The bannerhead contains the coat of arms and a black inscription "Marburg (bigger) a.d. Lahn (new line)".
Jörg Majewski, 16 Sep 2006

Coat of Arms

Shield Gules, a knight in armour Azure with helmet Argent, holding an inescutcheon Azure, charged with a lion rampant, barry of eight of Argent and Gules and crowned and armed Or with his left arm and a lance Or with his right hand. The knight is mounted on a prancing horse Argent bridled Or. On top of his lance a banner Or is fixed, charged with a Gothic "M" Azure and having three tails Or.
Meaning:
Marburg was a possession of the Landgraves of Thuringia, who granted the town city rights in the early 13th century. The arms thus show a knight dressed as a landgrave of Thuringia (most likely Ludwig IV). These arms are based on the oldest, 13th century, seals, which also displayed the knight. Smaller seals only displayed helmet and crest of Thuringia, with a letter "M" as a distinguishing mark for Marburg. In the 15th and 16th century the helmet with the letter was also used as coat of arms of the city. At the same time the lion of Thuringia, with a letter "M", was used as coat of arms of the city. This confusing situation was solved in 1577 when the present arms were approved. They were again granted in 1895.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.64
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 May 2017

Cappel Borough

5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 22 Sep 2006
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 June 2017

approved 2 February 1966

Banner:
Thereare a vertical 5-stripes flag with alternating yellow and blue stripes with ratio 1:3:12:3:1 (left image) or a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1 (right image). The coat of arms of both is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
incorporated on 31 December 1971
Gießen District , state Hesse
banner approved 2 February 1966
banner inofficial, used for traditional purposes only
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality banners are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 22 Sep 2006

Cappel Coat of Arms

Shield Azure, in base five barrulets wavy Or, issuant from the upper barrulet a watermill's wheel Or.
Meaning:
The arms of Cappel were granted in 1962 and were based on the water-mill which was built by the Knights of the Teutonic Order in the early Middle Ages. The knights had one of their major settlements in Marburg in 1234. The mill was first mentioned in 1299, but probably built earlier. It still exists. The waves are symbolising Lahn River, which flows through the borough.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.26
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 May 2017

Wehrda Borough

5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 19 Sep 2006
approved 27 June 1966

Banner:
It is a yellow-red-yellow vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
incorporated on 1 July 1974
Gießen District , state Hesse
banner approved on 27 June 1966
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality banners are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 19 Sep 2006

Wehrda Coat of Arms

Shield parted per fess into Or over Azure, a fess bretessed in counterchanged colours.
Meaning:
The arms are based upon the arms of the Wehrda kin called Nodung, which had a shield Argent charged with a fess wavy Sable. The colours are symbolising the pale sandstone of the Weißenstein (yellow) and the waters of Lahn River (blue).
The arms were approved on 26 August 1965.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 May 2017

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