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Hückeswagen city (Germany)

Stadt Hückeswagen, Oberbergischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jun 2007

City of Hückeswagen

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County and Municipal Flags (North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
Oberbergisch County
Oberbergisch cities and municipalities
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
Germany

City of Hückeswagen

City of Hückeswagen (county Oberbergischer Kreis / Northrhine-Westphalia)
Description of flag:
The flags ratio is 3:5. It is a plain white flag with the coat of arms in its centre.
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided per fess. In the chief is the upper half of a red rampant lion, blue crowned, blue tongued and blue armed. The base shows in a black field a silver(=white) shuttle with a silver(=white) yarn coming out of the shuttle. The coat of arms was granted by the Prussian king Wilhelm II. In 1892
Meaning:
The lion belongs to the coat of arms of the counts of Berg. The shuttle symbolizes the textile industries and the manufacturing of cloth since the Middle Ages.
Source: Klemens STADLER, images by Max REINHART: "Deutsche Wappen Bd.VII Nordrhein-Westfalen" Bremen 1972; p.55.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jun 2007