Market-Town of Isen (Erding County, Bavaria, Germany)

Markt Isen

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Marcus Schmöger Flag adopted 8th February 1984, coat-of-arms adopted 1548

• Description
• Variant without Coat-of-Arms
• Flag used unofficially before 1984

See also:

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

Other sites:

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

Emperor Charles V granted the arms to Isen in 1548, blazon: Azure, a mermaid proper habited Gules and crowned Or, holding up her tails Or. After the municipal reform this arms was readopted and concurrently a flag was officially adopted (8th February 1984). The flag is red-yellow-red and usually (but not always) displays the arms.

Marcus Schmöger, 2 April 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The meaning or origin of the figure in the