Freudenstadt County (Germany) (original) (raw)

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Kreis Freudenstadt, Karlsruhe District, Baden-Württemberg

[ [Freudenstadt county banner] ](../images/d/de-ft.gif)5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 8 Feb 2001
approved 23 July 1987

Other sites:

Das Kreiswappen (County Coat-of-Arms, German text only) including the description of the flag, at the Freudenstadt County official website

Description

A vertical flag, divided black-yellow. Adopted 23.07.1987, according to Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website. See also the county website. Freudenstadt was one of the first German counties —if not the first— to adopt arms (as early as 1926). It was also the first in Baden-Württemberg to get a flag. Arms are taken from Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website, original source of arms is Stadler 1964.
Stefan Schwoon, 8 Feb 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The arms were granted on 28 August 1926, and is thus one of the oldest arms of counties. The arms show a grouse, being a very common bird in the area, which is often hunted for. The grouse is not taken from any historical arms, nor from any arms of the major towns in the county. The colours are the colours of Württemberg.
Source: Stadler 1964, p.35

Santiago Dotor, 29 Oct 2001

The flag is also shown in Erich Dieter Linder, Die Flaggen deutscher Landkreise (Flags of German counties), in Der Flaggenkurier no. 2, 1996, pp. 4-10.
Stefan Schwoon, 22 Nov 2001

Civil Flag

[ [Freudenstadt county civil banner] ](../images/d/de-ft0.gif)5:2 image by Santiago Dotor, 29 Oct 2001
approved 23 July 1987

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