City of Menden (Märkischer Kreis County, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Stadt Menden

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Stefan Schwoon

• Description
• Hanging Flag (Banner)
• Flag in 1700

See also:

• Märkischer Kreis County (North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
• County and Municipal Flags (North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
• North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
• Germany

The city of Menden also kept its symbols when several other communes were integrated into it in 1974. The earliest notice of the arms (a tower with gate and portcullis) is from 1326. The colours changed several times: in 1700 they were gold/red, later white/red. In 1911 they were changed to white/black, recalling the colours of Cologne. The article about the flag in the statutes says:

Die Flagge der Stadt zeigt von Rot zu G