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Bottrop city (Germany)

Kreisfreie Stadt Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia

5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 23 Feb 2001

Bottrop city
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County and Municipal Flags (North Rhine-Westphalia / Nordrhein-Westfalen)
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Germany

Bottrop city

Vertically white-blue with the arms. Source: flag from Staack 1997, arms from the city website.
Stefan Schwoon, 23 Feb 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website: The new arms were granted 1976. The village became a boom-town at the end of the 19th century, due to the coal mining. It became a city in 1919. The arms granted in 1926 show a symbol of the coal mining placed upon the cross of the Teutonic Order. The loge of Welheim of the Order owned the area from 1230 to the 18th century. In the new arms elements from the former arms of Bottrop and Kirchhellen were combined.
Literature: Stadler 1964-1971; city website.
Santiago Dotor, 19 Dec 2001

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3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jun 2007

City of Bottrop (Northrhine-Westphalia)
Description of flag: It is a horizontal 7-stripes flag with alternating red and white stripes starting with a white one. The ratio of flag is 3:5.
Source: Klemens STADLER images by Max REINHART: "Deutsche Wappen Bd.7 Nordrhein-Westfalen" ,Bremen 1972, p.29.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jun 2007