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Lippe County (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Kreis Lippe

3:5
by Stefan Schwoon
Flag and coat-of-arms adopted 17th July 1973

Description
Hanging Flag (Banner)
Flag Variants

See also:

Lippe 1815-1945 (Germany)
Lippe (Landesverband Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
County and Municipal Flags (North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)

Description

Lippe was a state on its own until 1946 when it was integrated into the newly created North Rhine-Westphalia. The present-day county coincides with the state. The arms of Lippe, the rose, are part of the state arms of Northrhine-Westphalia. The flag and banner of Lippe are specified in the statutes, available at the county website:

Hauptsatzung des Kreises Lippe vom 25.10.1999
(...)
§ 2
Wappen, Dienstsiegel, Flagge und Banner (1) Der Kreis führt folgendes Wappen: In Silber (weiss) eine rote fünfblätterige Rose mit goldenen (gelben) Butzen und goldenen (gelben) Kelchblättern. Eine Darstellung ist als Anlage beigefügt. (...)
(3) Der Kreis führt eine Flagge mit den Farben gelb und rot, längsgestreift, mit dem zur Stange verschobenen Kreiswappen sowie ein Banner mit den Farben gelb und rot, längsgestreift mit dem Kreiswappen in der oberen Hälfte.

According to these statutes, the flags bear the shield with the coat of arms. A different variant with only the rose is also in use.

Stefan Schwoon, 5 February 2001

Flag adopted 17.07.1973, according to Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website. From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

The arms were granted on July 17, 1973. The arms are based on the old arms of the Princes and State of Lippe. The number of 16 pollen grains in the rose symbolises the 16 municipalities in the county.
Literature: Linder and Olzog 1996 [loz96].

Santiago Dotor, 25 October 2001

It is because Lippe was a state of its own until 1946, that its arms is also to be seen in the arms of North Rhine-Westphalia and thus also in the state flag of North Rhi