Rügen County (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany)

Landkreis Rügen

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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3:5
by Stefan Schwoon
Flag adopted 7th December 1995, coat-of-arms adopted 18th January 1993

• Description

See also:

• County and Municipal Flags (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
• Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Das Kreiswappen (County Coat-of-Arms, German text only) at the Parchim official website

Another flag version of the arms, scanned and colourised (modulo some pixel hunting) from Der Flaggenkurier no. 3, 1996, p. 35. Ratio is 3:5. Rügen is the largest German island, situated close to the Baltic coast.

Stefan Schwoon, 3 February 2001

Flag adopted 07.12.1995, according to Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website. From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The arms were granted on January 18, 1993. The arms are derived from the 13th century arms of the Principality of Rügen, with the addition of a crown. The meaning of the old arms is not known.

Literature: Linder and Olzog 1996.

Santiago Dotor, 25 October 2001