Last modified: 2020-03-07 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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![[Amt Probstei subcounty flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 6 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
The shield is divided per fess into silver (= white) over blue. Above is a red farmhouse. Below is a golden (= yellow) crozier with a broken shaft and 20 knobs filled red.
Meaning:
The farmhouse is the predominant type in the subcounty having: a partial hip roof, bay of post-built structure with a big entrance (Grootdör, i.e. big door) and windows with semi-circular archs. This type is called Haupthaus (lit.: main house) and there are still 89 examples left in the subcounty having the status of monuments due to the Schleswig-Holstein Preservation Order (Schleswig-Holsteinisches Denkmalschutzgesetz). The crozier is alluding to the rule of the Benedictian nuns of Preetz Monastery for some 700 years. The broken shaft is symbolising the rule's end in 1920. The knobs, 17 in the beginning, are symbolising the municipalities of the subcounty. Those are: Barsbek, Bendfeld, Brodersdorf, Fahren, Fiefbergen, Höhndorf, Köhn, Krokau, Krummbek, Laboe, Lutterbek, Passade, Prasdorf, Probsteierhagen, Schönberg, Stakendorf, Stein, Stoltenberg, Wendtorf and Wisch. The knobs for Laboe, Schönberg and Stoltenberg had been added on 1 January 2008. The blue colour is symbolising the Baltic Sea. Common symbols of the Probstei are the broken crozier and the perch of the von Barsfelde family, which appear on several municipal flags. Blue and silver are the colours of the Probstei.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
In 1202 Count(?) Albert of Orlamünde was enfeoffed by the Danish King as vasall of Holstein and Wagrien. A bit later he founded the Benedictian nuns' monastery in Preetz. The counts of Schauenburg were expelled but regained control over Holstein and Wagrien in 1225. Count Adolf IV reestablished the monastery of Preetz on 29 September 1226. The vasall Marquard of Stenwers had to cede the surrounding real estates to the monastery. Thus the Probstei became part of the dominions of Preetz monastery. The monastery purchased the surrounding villages as follows: Ratjendorf (1318), Passade (1373), Barsbek (1383), Fahren (1388) and finally Bendfeld (1421)
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Feb 2013
The flag was approved on 31 October 2002. The coat of arms was approved on 10 June 2002. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Barsbek municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-bb.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Aug 2006
It is a blue - white - blue vertical triband with ratio approx. 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the centre of the white stripe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
In a red shield is a silver (= white) perch.
Meaning:
The colours of the arms are those of Holstein, the colours of the flag of Schleswig-Holstein. "Barsbek" means "creek of perches" and the arms thus are canting. The shield is taken from the arms of the von Barsbeke family. The colours were modified. The family sold one half of the village to the monastery in Preetz, which gained the other half a little bit later. The perch from these arms had become a symbol for the whole dominions of the monastery, which were called Probstei (provostey).
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.83
The flag was approved on 25 May 2000. The coat of arms was approved on 11 January 1993. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Bendfeld municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-bf.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
An ascending diagonal from the lower fly corner divides the sheet into a smaller white hoist and a bigger red flyend. The diagonal is continuing the bend sinister of the coat of arms, which is shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
The shield is divided per bend sinister into red over silver (= white). Above is a silver (= white) broken crozier. Below is a blue bunch of purple moor-grass (Latin:Molinia caerulea).
Meaning:
The grass is a canting element. The location was first mentioned as "de Benvelde" (1264-1289) and later renamed into "to Bentvelde" , i.e. settlement on the field of purple moor-grass. The crozier is alluding to the monastery in Preetz, to which Bendfeld belonged. Bendfeld was the last village becoming a dominion of the monastery (1421), symbolised by the broken shaft.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 25 February 2010. The artists are Henning Höppner and Jan-Hinrich Puck.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Brodersdorf municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-br.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Mar 2020
It is a blue-white-red horizontal tricolour with ratio of stripes 1:3.1. The coat of arms is in the white stripe and shifted to the hoist. The flag in general has the same pattern as the county flag.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
Shield parted per fess by a bar wavy Argent, above Azure two beech leaves Argent in fan, beneath Gules a harrow Argent.
Meaning:
The fessis representing the historical highroad between Kiel and Schönberg. Beeches are a typical local kind of trees. The harrow is symbolising agriculture as main business line of the local farmers, living in good circumstances under the rule of a monastery.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.108
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
The arms were approved on 28 October 1986. The flag has never been approved officially and is not mentioned in §1 of the local Hauptsatzung, version 18 November 2008. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
The municipality has no proper flag.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Mar 2020
![[Fiefbergen municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-fi.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
The shield is divided by a silver (= white) fess wavy into blue over red. In the middle the fess is five times invected. Above is a silver (= white) bat. Below is a silver (= white) paddock's gate.
Meaning:
The gate is symbolising agriculture. The invected part of the fess is a canting element, symbolising five moutains. The village was first mentioned in 1264 as "de quinque montibus". Fiefbergen even today is the home of three kinds of bats. Among those is the big noctule bat (Latin: Nyctalus noctula), which is depicted on the shield.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 5 April 2005. The artist is Gisela Gördes from Ascheberg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Höhndorf municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-hn.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Sep 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
In a silver (= white) shield above three blue barrulets wavy is the red gable side of a barn flanked by a black wheel (dexter chiefpoint) and a black hammer connected with two acorns as offsprings (sinister chiefpoint).
Meaning:
The barn is a local building. Wheel and hammer are symbolising crafts. The offsprings are symbolising the settlement cores of Höhndorf proper and Gödersdorf. The barrulets are symbolising riches of water.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 27 June 2006. The artist is Egon Ossowski from Handewitt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Köhn municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-kh.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 28 Jul 2006
It is a green flag. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
On the base of a silver (=white) shield is a red megalithic tomb. Above stands a green, rooted, cutten stem of an oak tree with four fresh, leafy branches, two on either side.
Meaning:
The arms are based upon a seal, which was created by the mayor in 1951, after the administrative authority had asked him. The oak is symbolising the local riches of grove. In one grove is the tomb beneath the tree. The four branches are representing the former municipalities of Köhn, Püisen, Moorrehmen and Mühlen.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 1 April 2004. The artist is Martin Doebner from Köhn.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Krokau municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-kr.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 28 Jul 2006
It is a blue - white - blue vertical triband with ratio approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the white stripe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
The base of the blue shield is divided by a silver (= white) fess wavy, divided into three waves. Above is a golden (= yellow) cross of vanes.
Meaning:
The cross of vanes is representing a local Dutch windmill, which is today a museum. Furthermore it is symbolising agriculture and grain cultivation. The three waves are symbolising three tiny creeks, which coalesce and form the Krokau, the name giver of the municipality.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 8 December 2001. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
![[Krummbek municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pl-05-km.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 Aug 2006
It is a yellow - green - yellow vertical tricolour. The green stripe is divided by a white, wavy line. Above are two yellow blossoms of rape. Below is a broken, yellow crozier.
Meaning:
The crozier is alluding to the affiliation with the monastery in Preetz. The blossoms are symbolising the settlement cores of Krummbek proper and Ratjendorf. The wavy line is a canting element, symbolising the Krummbek, a local creek. The green colour is symbolising acres and grasslands as economic base of the municipality.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 18 April 2005. The artist is Henning Höppner from Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Feb 2013
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