Battenberg upon Eder City (Germany) (original) (raw)


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Stadt Battenberg (Eder), Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kassel District, Hesse

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[[Battenberg (Eder) banner]](../images/d/de-kb-bb%5F.gif)5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 31 Oct 2006
approved 20 May 1985

Battenberg upon Eder City

Banner:
It is a black-white-black vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 2:9:2. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
inhabitants: 5414
Waldeck-Frankenberg County
Kassel District , state Hesse
banner approved on 20 May 1985
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 31 Oct 2006

Coat of Arms

Shield parted per pale of Sable and Argent.
Meaning:
Since the armourial of Wessel (1621), based on Rotenburg paintings (on the city hall?) of 1577 the arms are known as either black and silver or red and silver. The arms are those of the oldest Lords of Battenberg. The oldest seals of the city from 1238 displayed a tower flanked half length portraits of the Count of Battenberg and the Archbishop of Mainz, who ruled the city in condominion. When Mainz acquired the full rights in 1291 in the beginning the seals showed the archbishop alone. All later seals from 1326 til the 18th century displayed the wheel of Mainz, even after the end of the rule of the archbishops in 1583. In the late 19th century Otto Hupp misinterpreted the situation and mentioned the wheel as city arms.
Source: Stadler 1967, p.20
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2017

Oberasphe Borough

[[Battenberg-Oberasphe borooughbanner]](../images/d/de-kb-bb-oa%5F.gif)5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Nov 2006
approved 3 September 1959

Banner:
It is a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband with stripes of equal width. The coat of arms is in the white bannerhead.
incorporated on 1 January 1974
Waldeck-Frankenberg county
district Kassel, state Hesse
banner approved on 3 September 1959
banner unofficial, used for traditional purposes only
The GIF and the details are based on the presentations of Klaus Günther, with kind permission.
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 4 Nov 2006

Oberasphe Coat of Arms

Shield Azure, three lozenges Or in bend, in dexter chief a quatrefoil Or
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2017

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