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![[Mainz-Bingen County]](../images/d/de-mz.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 6 Aug 2009
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It is a black over yellow horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: Debus 1988 and State Archive Speyer in Klaus Günther:"Kommunalflaggen von Rheinland-Pfalz", CD
Jörg Majewski, 6 May 2009
The shield is divided per pale into red and black. The dexter side displays a silver (= white) six spokes wheel. The sinister side displays a golden (= yellow) rampant lion, crowned, armed and tongued red. The golden (= yellow) chief is charged with a black eagle, armed and tongued red.
Meaning:
The eagle is representing the Holy Roman Empire, the wheel the Archbishopric and Electorate of Mainz, the lion the Palatine Electorate (Kurpfalz). In the county had been the core area of the archbishopric. Ingelheim, Oppenheim and Nierstein had been under direct imperial rule. The Palatine Counts of Rhine had become the successors of the Counts of Sponheim, who had their dominions around the city of Bingen. The current arms are some kind of reconfiguration of the arms of the former county of Bingen, where the Palatine lion was in the 1st field and an imperial demi-eagle couped per pale in the 2nd field of a shield divided per pale. The wheel of Mainz had been in a small inescutcheon in the centre of the shield.
Sources: Stadler 1972, p.116; Stadler 1964, p.19
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jan 2014
The flag was approved on 13 April 1984.
Jörg Majewski, 6 May 2009
![[Mainz County]](../images/d/de-mz-c1.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jan 2014
It was a black over yellow horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms was in the centre of the flag.
Source: Stadler 1964, p.60
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jan 2014
In a golden (= yellow) shield is a black eagle, armed and tongued red. Upon his breast is a red inescutcheon, displaying a silver (= white) wheel.
Meaning:
The eagle is representing the Holy Roman Empire and the wheel the Archbishopric and Electorate of Mainz. For the details see Mainz-Bingen County (see above).
Source: Stadler 1964, p.60
The coat of arms was approved on 8 January 1955 by Minister of Interior of Rheinland-Pfalz. All symbols were abolished on 7 June 1969.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jan 2014
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