Last modified: 2017-11-13 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Groß-Gerau city banner]](../images/d/de-gg-gg_.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 12 June 2006
Banner:
It is a blue-yellow-red vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top. The shield is topped by a yellow mural crown with three towers.
inhabitants 23,538
Groß-Gerau County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
banner approved on adopted 22 January 1996, approved in 1967
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.42
Jörg Majewski, 12 June 2006
Shield parted per fess; above Azure a demi-lion barry of six of Argent and Gules, armed and tongued Or; beneath Or a cross patty Gules, flanked by alternating onions and cabbages, all Vert.
Meaning:
Gross-Gerau gained city rights in 1398, but there are no old city seals known. The oldest seal dates from the 16th century and shows a combination of a cabbage and an onion. These probably symbolise the importance of the horticulture in the area. Around 1600 the vegetables are combined with the cross, and the new arms are used both in seals and in buildings. The origin of the cross is not known, but it is seen on a boundary stone from 1596, without the vegetables. The lion of Hesse was added in 1901.
The current arms were approved in 1901.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.42
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2017
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