This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website

Ebersberg County (Oberbayern District, Bavaria, Germany)

Landkreis Ebersberg

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
Keywords: landkreis ebersberg | ebersberg county | coat of arms (boar: black) | coat of arms (tree: pine) |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors


[Ebersberg County (Oberbayern District, Bavaria, Germany)] 5:2
by Stefan Schwoon
Coat-of-arms adopted 31st October 1955, flag adopted 12th February 1986

See also:

Description

Green-white stripes, adopted 12.02.1986. The coat-of-arms is the same as that of the pre-reform county. Sources: Linder and Schmidt 2000, arms image from Stadler 1964-1972.

Stefan Schwoon, 20 September 2001

Here is some interesting stuff on the county flag which I found out while researching flags in Ebersberg county. In 1986, after the adoption of the flag, the county contacted the municipalities in the county, to see if they would join in buying county flags. About half of them bought county flags, but in several different sizes:

  • hanging flags (Banner) of 500 × 150 cm, 400 × 150 cm and 300 × 150 cm
  • flapping flags (Knatterfahne) of 500 × 150 cm
  • 'normal' hoisted flags of 150 × 250 cm and 200 × 335 cm.
They did so obviously because the different municipalities use differently sized other flags (Germany, Bavaria) and bought flags that matched those. However, since 1986 the one or two county flags in most of those municipalities have virtually disappeared. No one knows where they are and no one knows, that they had ever been in existence.

Marcus Schmöger, 20 September 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The arms were granted on October 31, 1955 and confirmed on November 10, 1972.

The arms are partly canting, a boar (Eber) on a mountain (Berg), and are taken from the arms of the city of Ebersberg, as well as the counts of Ebersberg. The pine tree has been added as a symbol of the large forests in the northern part of the county. The number of branches was identical to the number of municipalities in the county in 1955.

Literature: Stadler 1964-1972.

Santiago Dotor, 1 December 2003