Last modified: 2020-03-07 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: suederbrarup(subcounty) | suederbrarup | boeel | boren | ekenis | kiesby | mohrkirch | norderbrarup | vanes | linden(infructescence) | oak | anvil | apple | wheel | wind generator | cross(anthony) | belfry | urn | horseshoe | triskelion | w |
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![[Süderbrarup subcounty flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
Shield Or a Triskelion Azure in an annulet of the same, flanked by two grain ears in pale of the same, base wavy Azure charged with a whitefish Or.
Meaning:
The triskelion is dscribed as a 3-spokes wheel in the German blazon. Wheel and ears are stressing the rural character of the subcounty. It is also symbolising the parity of the local municipalities. The Triskelion is taken from the arms of Süderbrarup Municipality (see below). It is part of an oblation, found in Thorsberger Moor, a local marsh. The wavy line of partition and the local whitefish (Latin: Coregonus maraena), a kind of salmon, are symbolising the Schlei, a firth. The colours are those of Schleswig.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
Flag and arms were approved on 20 June 2019. The artist is Egon Ossowski from Handewitt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
The following municipalities have no proper flags: Loit, Nottfeld, Rügge, Saustrup, Scheggerott, Steinfeld, Ulsnis and Wagersrott.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Mar 2020
![[Böel municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-bl.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of flag:
The ratio is 2:3. It is an armorial flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided by a blue-golden (=blue-yellow) pale wavy into golden (= yellow) and green. On the dexter side is a green cross, made of the vanes of a windmill. On the sinister side is a golden (= yellow) infructescence
Meaning:
The cross is representing the windmill of Böelschuby, which was in service from 1753 to 1870. The infructescence is representing an alleyway of lindens and poplars alongside the Oxbek creek. The pale wavy is symbolizing the creek. The colours green and golden are representing the importance of agriculture in the 1000-years-history of the municipality.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 1 March 2011. The coat of arms was approved on 25 January 2011. The artist is Egon Ossowski from Handewitt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
![[Boren municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-bo.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
Shield Or, a 5-spokes wheel Azure, flanked in chief by a sheaf Vert with five stalks at dexter and by an oak leaf Vert with three acorns Or at sinister, in base a whitefish Azure between two barrulets wavy Azure.
Meaning:
The wheel is taken from the arms of the former Kiesby Municipality. It is representing crafts, agriculture and tourism as economic base of the municipality. The barrulets wavy are referring to "Borne", the name giving fountain. The whitefish from the Schlei had been very important for the nutrition of the local people in the past and was called a "bread fish". The sheaf is representing agriculture. The oak leaf is taken from the arms of former Ekenis Municipality and is alluding to the extended oak groves in the past. The current municipality had incorporated Ketelsby and Lindau already in 1974, and Ekenis und Kiesby in 2013. The number of acorns is related to the merger of 2013. The number of spokes and stalks in wheel and sheaf is referring to all the five former municipalities.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
Flag and arms were approved on 19 December 2016. The artist is Egon Ossowski from Handewitt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
![[Ekenis municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-ek.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 Apr 2006
Description of flag:
The ratio is 3:5. It is an armorial flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided per chevron into blue over golden (= yellow). The golden field is superimposed by a green, bendy oak leaf, superimposed by three silver (= white) acorns.
Meaning:
The yellow triangle is intruding the blue field in the flag. (The "chevron" in flag neither touches hoist nor fly.) The triangle is symbolizing a tongue of land between wet and swampy grounds. It is also representing the suffix "-nis" in the name. The oak branch is symbolizing the existence of oak woods even today and is alluding to the prefix "eke-", which means "oak". The acorns are symbolizing the hamlets of Wattlück, Ekenisfeld and Bicken.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 4 October 2002. The coat of arms was approved on 4 October 2001. The artist is Hans Christian Green from Ekenis.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
![[Kiesby municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-ki.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of flag:
The ratio is 3:5. It is an armorial flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of coat of arms:
In the centre of a blue shield is silver (=white) wind generator having three rotor blades. The centre is superimposed by a waggon's wheel of the same colour. Above right is an apple, above left an anvil and below central four cornstalks draped like a fan. All these elements are golden (= yellow).
Meaning:
The colours are those of the former duchy of Schleswig. The tree-bladed wind generator is alluding to a historical windmill in the centre of Kiesby and to the numerous modern wind engines of the municipality. The apple is symbolizing the local cyder and apple juice production in Kaltoft. The anvil is symbolizing a Smithsonian tradition in the municipality. Finally the stalks are symbolizing agriculture and the former municipalities of Kiesby, Kiesbyfeld, Kaltoft and Bremswatt. Finally the waggon's wheel is symbolizing industry, crafts and agriculture.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 26 January 2010. The coat of arms was approved on 29 October 2009. The local artists are Joachim Beyer, Klaus Horstmann, Johannes Jensen and Thomas Siebe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
![[Mohrkirch municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-mo.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 27 May 2007
Description of flag:
The ratio is 3:5. It is an armorial flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of coat of arms:
In a golden (= yellow) shield is a blue capital "T" flanked by two green oak leaves.
Meaning:
The place was first mentioned in 1391 as Moerker, an estate. The estate together with a mill, some ponds and numerous acres had been sold by the lembeck family to the Congregation of St. Anthony from Tempsin (Mecklenburg). The monks rected a monastery and gained more acres in the neighbourhood. The T-shaped cross of St. Anthony is taken from the monastery's seal. Later it appeared on the seals of the Mohrkirch subdistrict (Harde. The oak leaves are symbolizing the existence of numerous oak trees in the area. The colours blue and golden are those of the former duchy of Schleswig.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.242
The flag was approved on 13 August 1996. The coat of arms was approved on 7 August 1972. The artist is Wilhelm Horst Lippert from Brunsbüttel.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
![[Norderbrarup municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-nb.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 20 May 2007
Description of flag:
The ratio is 3:5. It is a yellow over blue horizontal bicolour with proportions 2:3. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag bestriding the total height of the sheet.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
Description of coat of arms:
In a blue shield is a golden (= yellow) baroque style gable bestriding the total width of the shield. The gable is superimposed by a blue tower, which is superimposed by a golden (= yellow) bell. On the dexter chiefpoint is a golden (= yellow) horseshoe, upon the sinister chiefpoint an urn of the same colour.
Meaning:
The colours are those of the former duchy of Schleswig. The tower is the belfry of the local church dedicated to St.Mary. The horseshoe is symbolizing the breeding of Schleswig carthorses until 1975. The urn is representing a Germanic graveyard especially for women from the Bronze Age. The "gable " is the top of a so called "Margarethe's cupboard ". Local farmer Johannes Adolf Jakobsen due tot he last will of his late daughter Margarethe established a foundation in 1895. The cupboard was filled with items used by nurses. Since then this type of cupboard became the core of many nursing stations exceeding Angeln and Schleswig-Holstein.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 14 December 2006. The artist is Egon Ossowski from Handewitt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Dec 2012
![[Süderbrarup municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-13-sb.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 5 Mar 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
Shield Azure, a Triskelion Or in two concentric annulets of the same, connected by four nose-pieces.
Meaning:
Süderbrarup is a very old parish and was mentioned in the "Earth Book" of the Danish King Waldemar II in 1231. Today it is well known by its market. The Triskelion was found by peat depletion in the Thorsberger Moor, a local marsh. Since the 1840ies more than 2500 ancient objects, used between 100 BC and 100 AD, were discovered in that marsh. The triskelion probably had been a part of a belt fastener. The Triskelion within the fastener is probably a sunwheel, dedicated to the Germanic Goddess Sunna.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
The municipality applied for a coat of arms in 1940, but the approval was delayed by the Kiel State Archive. The arms were approved in 1946 by British Military Government. The flag was never approved officially.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2020
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