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klaus-michael schneider
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When the municipality of Bosau, part of Ostholstein County, was added to Plön-Land Subcounty, the old name did'nt fit no more and the new entity was renamed as Großer Plöner See Subcounty. The city of Plön remained the seat of the new subcounty. Bosau is located on the eastern corner of the lake.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The subcounty itself and the municipality of Kalübbe have no proper flags.
Sources: German WIKIPEDIA and Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 March 2020
![[Ascheberg (Holstein) municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-as.gif)
3:5
image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Aug 2006
It is a blue over white over blue horizontal triband.The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag exceeding the central stripe.
In a red shield are three silver (= white) leaves in a triangular constellation and coming out from a blossom of the same colour upon the fesspoint. The shield has a silver (= white) chief divided by a blue fess embattled counterembattled.
Meaning:
The fess is symbolising a railway line. The main figure is taken from the arms of Volrad of Ascheberg from 1370. His family owned the village.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.76
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 17 May 1990. The coat of arms was approved on 19 December 1989. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Bösdorf municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-bs.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Aug 2006
It is a quarterly divided flag. The 1st quarter is blue displaying a white pough. The 4th quarter is red displaying a white branch of oak with two leaves and three acorns. The other quarters are plain white.
Meaning:
The branch is symbolising the local groves of oak trees. The plough is symbolising agriculture and is the tool, which was used to cultivate the area since the 13th century. Both figures are taken from the municipal arms.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.94
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on21 July 1992 . The coat of arms was approved on 24 September 1985. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Dersau municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-de.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 31 Jul 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
The shield is divided per bend into blue over gold (= yellow). Above right is a silver (= white) millwheel. Below left is a blue wheel flanked by two leaves of alder of the same colour.
Meaning:
The blue colour is symbolising the Great Plön Lake (Großer Plöner See). The yellow colour is symbolising the fields of grain and rape. The millwheel is symbolising the existence of a windmill and a watermill in former Ascheberg Manor District. The wheel is symbolising Dersau Main Street. The leaves are symbolising riches of groves.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 19 October 2005. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Dörnick municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-dk.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 8 Aug 2006; and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Source: I spotted this flag on 26 October 2007 on the Plöner Chaussee (B 430) eastbound.
The shield is divided per fess wavy into silver (= white) over blue. Above are two red shelves crossed per saltire having horseheads at the tops. Below is a silver (= white) boat with a rudder.
Meaning:
The shield alludes to the merger of the village of Dörnick with the hamlet of Karpe in 1929. The shelves are showing the roof-ridge of the farmhouse in Hohelieth. They were also fixed to any gable in the region of the tenants houses. The boat is symbolising the former ferry between Plön, Dörnick and Wittmoldt. The wavy line is symbolising the Schwentine River and the Little Plön Lake (Kleiner Plöner See).
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.124
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 15 March 1999. The coat of arms was approved on 21 January 1990. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Grebin municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-gr.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
The shield is divided per saltire into red (1st and 4th quarter) and white (2nd and 3rd quarter). The red quarters are superimposed by a silver (= white) leaf of hornbeam. The 2nd quarter is superimposed by a blue millwheel. The 3rd quarter is superimposed by a blue circle of twelve stones.
Meaning:
The quarters are symbolising the settlement cores of Behl, Grebin, Görnitz und Schönweide. The leaves are a canting element. Grebin is of Slavic origin meaning "grove of hornbeams". The ring is representing the prehistorical necropolis upon Timmberg, a local hill. The wheel is alluding to the historical watermill of Schönweide Manor. The colours are those of Schleswig-Holstein.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.149
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 18 September 1995. The coat of arms was approved on 3 December 1990. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Lebrade municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-lb.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 6 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
The shield is divided per pale. The dexter side displays two bendy, golden (= yellow) keys. The sinister side is divided per fess displaying above a blue bend sinister wavy in a silver (= white) field and below a silver (= white) helmet crested by two horns in a red field.
Meaning:
The three parts of the shield are alluding to the three settlement cores of Lebrade proper, Kossau and Rixdorf. The keys are an attribute of St. Hippolyt, the patron saint of the church in Lebrade. Hippolyt had been the jailor of St. Lorenz. The bend wavy is representing Kossau, village and creek. The helmet is taken from a seal of the knight Johann of Ricklikesdorp (= Rixdorf) from 1349. The colours are those of Schleswig-Holstein's arms.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.223
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 24 May 2005. The coat of arms was approved on 22 March 1990. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
Looks like Darth Vader in lower sinister ;-).
Lewis A. Nowitz, 6 Aug 2006
![[Nehmten municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-nh.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 30 Jul 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
The blue shield is divided by a broad golden (= yellow) pale superimposed by five green oak leaves.
Meaning:
The current municipality has five parts: Nehmten Manor, first mentioned in 1244, Pehmen Manor, first mentioned in 1351 and the villages of Sepel (1433), Godau (1244) and Bredenbek (1649). The number of leaves is symbolising these settlement cores. The leaves are also representing the oldest and biggest stock of oak trees in the county. The blue colour is symbolising Stocksee and Gro?er Plöner See. The municipality is located between these lakes.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 15 February 2002. The coat of arms was approved on 18 October 2001. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Rantzau municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-rz.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 2 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
The shield is divided per pale into silver (= white) and red. The dexter side displays a red great helm crested by two buffalo horns. The sinister side displays a silver (= white) primrose with five blossoms.
Meaning:
Silver and red are the colours of the Rantzau family. The helmet is known from seals of the family and symbolising the connection between family and municipality. Both had been mentioned first in 1226 as "Ranzov". The primrose (Latin: Primula elatior) is blooming very soon. "Ran" is a Slavic word for "early".
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.282
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 3 May 1993. The coat of arms was approved on 9 September 1991.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
![[Rathjensdorf municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-rj.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Mar 2020
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
Shield parted per bend sinister, above right Gules a great helm Argent crested with two bladed wheels of the same, beneath left Or a quatrefoil Vert.
Meaning:
The helmet is taken from a seal of Johann of Ratmerstorp from 1336. The quatrefoil is reminding on the former municipalities of Theresienhof, Tramm, Neutramm and Rathjensdorf, which were united in 1928 as Tramm and renamed in 1949.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.283
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
The arms were approved on 21 April 1992. The flag was adopted on 13 December 2018 but has not yet been approved officially. The artist is Winfried Lichtenthäler from Rathjensdorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
![[Wittmoldt municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-02-wm.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
In the golden (= yellow) shield is a green, sealed bottle accompanied by four more seals, two on either side. The seals are ordered per fess. The shield has a blue chief wavy superimposed by a silver (= white) boat with rudder.
Meaning:
The existence of suitable sands and of wood, suitable as fool, effected the foundation of an important glass factory in the 18th century, specialized on the production of bottles. (The bottle in shield is a Bocksbeutel, used for Franconian wines). The boat, a mirror image of the municipal flag of Dörnick, is symbolising the Schwentine ferry between both villages. The yellow colour is symbolising the sands, the blue colour the Schwentine River and the Little Plön Lake (Kleiner Plöner See). The five seals are representing the five settlement cores of Wittmoldt.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 20 April 2009. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2013
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