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Bad Driburg city (Germany)

Stadt Bad Driburg, Kreis Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia

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[Bad Driburg flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Nov 2007
adopted 9 May 1973

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Bad Driburg city

City of Bad Driburg (Höxter county; Northrhine-Westphalia)
Description of banner:
It is a blue and yellow vertical bicolour with the coat of arms shifted to the top.
Description of coat of arms:
In a blue field is a golden (=yellow) wall with bruckwork and pinnacles. In the middle is an open door topped by a golden(=yellow) tower with pinnacles. In the upper sinister corner is a golden (=yellow) Latin cross.
Meaning:
The image was used upon the seals of the former city of Iburg since 1380. The city used a golden wall in a red field from 1908 until 1973 to turn out the dominion of the archbishops of Paderborn until 1803.
Authorized: 9 May 1973 by Regierungspräsident Detmold
Source: Peter VEDDELER:"Wappen-Siegel-Flaggen, die kommunalen Hoheitszeichen der Kreise, Städte und Gemeinden in Westfalen-Lippe" ; ISBN 3-87023-252-8; p.333
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Nov 2007