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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Rostock County flag]](../images/d/de-rc.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, based upon an image of Jörg Majewski, 27 Mar 2020
On 4 September Güstrow county and Bad Doberan county merged. The name of the new county is Rostock county, the seat of the county is GüstrowGüstrow.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Nov 2011
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
![[Rostock County flag]](../images/d/de-rc1.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, based upon an image of Jens Pattke, 6 Nov 2007
The flag was quarterly divided into yellow (upper hoist and lower fly) and blue (lower hoist and upper fly). Both hoist quarters together show the new coat of arms without shield.
Shield parted per fess; above Or a bull's head caboshed sable croned Or, armed Argent and tongued Gules; beneath Azure griffin's head Or; in the centre two croziers in saltire Gules in the upper field and Or in the lower field.
Meaning:
According to source the bull is representing Güstrow, the griffin Rostock. The croziers are representing Bad Doberan.
Source: DGF-Informationen Nr.49
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Nov 2011
The arms were approved on 15 November 2011 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.340.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Nov 2011
![[Bad Doberan County flag (- 2011)]](../images/d/de-rc-c1.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 18 Feb 2007
It was a yellow-blue horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Letter of county council Bad Doberan of 29 November 1995.
Jörg Majewski, 18 Feb 2007
![[Bad Doberan County arms (- 2011)]](../images/d/de-rc-c1).gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 18 Feb 2007
Shield parted by a crozier Argent in fess pointing to dexter; above Azure a griffin passant Argent; beneath Or a bull's head caboshed Sable, crowned Or, armed Argent and tongued Gules.
Meaning:
The crozier is alluding to the city of Bad Doberan, seat of the county, and to the Cistercian Abbey of Doberan, which owned large estates in the area. The griffin is taken fom the arms of theLordship of Rostock, to which belonged the bigger part of the county. The bull's head is alluding to the Lordship of Werle, to which belonged the area around Bützow.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.220-221
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2020
The arms were approved on 5 December 1995 and the flag on 1 Auigust 1996 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.96.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Nov 2011
Güstrow County had no proper flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2011
![[Güstrow former County arms (- 2011)]](../images/d/de-rc-c2).gif)
image located by Jens Pattke, 7 Jan 2012
Shield parted per fess; above Or a bull's head caboshed Sable, crowned Or, armed Argent, tongued Gules with nostrils GHules, flanked by two facettd 6-point stars Gules; benathe patrted per fess of Gules and Or, two croziers in counterchanged tinctures in saltire.
Meaning:
The biggest part belonged to the Lordship of Werle, represented by the bull's head. The stars are symbolising the merger of two former counties having nearly the same size. Those were the old counties of Güstrow and Teterow. The lower field is representing the Bishopric of Schwerin, to which belonged the area around Bützow.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.252-253
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2020
The arms were approved on 16 August 1996 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.110.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jan 2012
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