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Nordsachsen county (Germany)

Landkreis Nordsachsen, district Chemnitz, Saxony

Last modified: 2009-04-11 by jarig bakker
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[Nordsachsen county flag] 3:5 image by Jens Pattke, 5 Jan 2009
adopted 10 Dec 2008; design: Manfred Fischer

Other Nordsachsen county pages: See also:

Nordsachsen county

Nordsachsen (English: Northern Saxony)  is a county (Landkreis) in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. The district was established by merging the former counties of Delitzsch and Torgau-Oschatz as part of the county reform of August 2008.
The county is located in the plains north and east of Leipzig. The main rivers of the county are the Mulde and the Elbe. The county borders (from the west and clockwise) the states Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, the counties of Meißen, Mittelsachsen and Leipzig, and the urban county Leipzig.
The county of Nordsachsen adopted news symbols on December,10 2008. The flag is horizontally divided yellow-blue-yellow (1:1:1) with the CoA of the county of Nordsachsen in the center of cloth.

The official description (in German):

*CoA:
In Gold zwischen zwei blauen Wellenpfählen ein aufgerichteter rot bewehrter und gezungter schwarzer Löwe.

*flag:
Drei gleich breite Querstreifen in den Farben Gelb-Blau-Gelb mit in der Mitte aufgelegtem Landkreiswappen, welches gleichmäßig in die beiden gelben Streifen hinein reicht.

*banner:
Die Flagge als Hochformat (Banner) besteht aus drei gleich breiten Längsstreifen in den Farben Gelb-Blau-Gelb und trägt in der oberen Hälfte das senkrechte Landkreiswappen, das gleichmäßig in die beiden gelben Streifen hinein reicht.

Manfred Fischer designed flag and CoA of the county of Nordsachsen

Source (in German): this webpage.
Jens Pattke, 5 Jan 2009


county banner

[Nordsachsen county banner] image by Jens Pattke, 5 Jan 2009
adopted 10 Dec 2008; design: Manfred Fischer

county CoA

[Nordsachsen county coat of arms] image by Jens Pattke, 5 Jan 2009
adopted 10 Dec 2008; design: Manfred Fischer