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Gemeinde Gremsdorf, Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bayern

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• Gremsdorf Municipality
  • Gremsdorf Banner
  • Gremsdorf Coat of Arms See also:
• Erlangen-Höchstadt County (Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bavaria, Germany)
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• Central Franconia (Mittelfranken)
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Gremsdorf Municipality

Gremsdorf Banner

It is a blue-white-red vertical tricolour. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Sep 2021

Gremsdorf Coat of Arms

Shield parted per pale, at dexter Argent a sinister pointing wing Gules with an arm of the same issuant holding a Latin crosslet Gules, at sinister Azure a demi-millwheel Argent couped per pale.
Meaning:
The dexter half displays the arms of the Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, which had been the manorial lord of the village and had also the local cognisance. The millwheel is representing the old local watermill, which still exists.
Source: "Der Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt", Hof 1979, pp.103-106
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Sep 2021

Banner and arms were approved on 1 February 1983 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Mittelfranken.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Sep 2021

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