Last modified: 2017-03-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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county seat of Offenbach County
inhabitants 33,413
district Darmstadt, state Hesse
flag adopted 10 November 1958
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther, with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 5 Aug 2006
It is a yellow banner with blue vertical edges and the coat of arms within the yellow stripe shifted to the top
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2017
The shield is Gules, a bend Argent charged with a bendlet wavy Azure. In sinister chief and dexter base a grapevine Or leaved Vert
Meaning:
The arms were approved in 1957. The old seal of Dietzenbach only showed the patron saint, St. Martin. The wave is a canting element (Bach=brook), the grapevines are symbolizing the extensive viticulture in the area.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.27
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2017
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