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Gemeinde Messingen, Samtgemeinde Freren, Emsland County, Lower Saxony

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[](../images/d/de-el-ms.gif)3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 13 Nov 2007
Flag adopted 1988

• Messingen municipality
• Coat of Arms See also:
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• Emsland cities and municipalities
• Samtgemeinde* Freren
• Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
• Germany

Messingen municipality

Municipality Messingen
Samtgemeinde* Freren
county Emsland
coa adopted: 24th February 1988 [1]
flag adopted: 1988 [2]
sources:
[1] Hanns Fettweis, "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989
[2] Federal Archives of Hannover
[3] E-Mail from the samtgemeinde of 10th May 2005
"The flag of the municipality Messingen is one of red and, lengthways rectangular cloth touched yellowly three times horizontally, length to height like 5:3; on the front third line covered with the municipality coat of arms which partly covers the red stripes.
*A "Samtgemeinde" (SG*), also called "collective municipality" is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community in Lower Saxony.
Jörg Majewski, 10 Nov 2007

Coat of Arms

[ms.gif)](../images/d/de-el%29ms.gif)image by Jörg Majewski, 13 Nov 2007
coa adopted: 24 Feb 1988