City of Dorfen (Erding County, Bavaria, Germany)

Stadt Dorfen

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Marcus Schmöger Flag used unofficially since c.1954

• Description
• Variant without Coat-of-Arms

See also:

• Erding County (Kreis Erding, Bavaria, Germany)
• County and Municipal Flags (Bavaria / Bayern, Germany)
• Bavaria (Bayern, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Dorfen Town Flag at Marcus Schmöger's The Arms and Flags of the Landkreis Erding website

The first seal of Dorfen dates from 1374 and already shows the arms that are in used nowadays (blazon: Azure, three houses two and one Argent, roofed Or). However, the colours are not really clear: until the beginning of the 20th century the roofs were painted red, since at least the 1950's a variant of the arms was used, that showed a shield per bend sinister Azure and Gules. The colours of the flag are blue and red; they are derived from the blue field of the arms and