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klaus-michael schneider
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![[Geisingen city banner wo/ CoA]](../images/d/de-tt-ge0_.gif) 5:2  image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Nov 2013
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![[Geisingen city banner w/ CoA]](../images/d/de-tt-ge_.gif) 5:2  image by Jörg Majewski, 21 June 2020
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It is a white-red-yellow vertical tricolour without arms (see left image above) of with arms (see right image above).
Sources: Stefan Schwoon spotted the plain banner on 27 August 2003 alongside the main street and this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2020
Shield parted per pale, at dexter Argent a sinister facing lion rampant Gules, at sinister Or an eagle Gules, armed and tongued Azure.
Meaning:
The colours are those appearing on the city's coat of arms. Geisingen gained city rights in 1310. Since 1324 there are prints of city seals, nearly displaying the current pattern but using two shields. The lion displays the arms of the Barons of Geisingen. They renamed themselves in the 12th century to Barons of Wartenberg, which had been their castle. They established a market in Geisingen in the 13th century. The eagle displays the arms of the Counts of Fürstenberg, local rulers after 1318. They city belonged to the Fürstenbergian Landgraviate of Baar until 1806 and became a dominion of Baden afterwards. Until the 19th century the arms of the city had a bordure undy from the Fürstenberg family arms.
Source: Stadler 1971, p.43
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2020
The tinctures of the arms were fixed in 1903.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2020
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