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Rheine city (Germany)

Stadt Rheine, Steinfurt County, North Rhine-Westphalia

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[Rheine city flag with CoA] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Nov 2007
Flag adopted 24 Mar 1976

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City of Rheine

City of Rheine (Steinfurt county/NorthRhine Westphalia): It is a yellow over red over yellow tricolour. The stripes have equal width. The flags ratio is 3:5. The image was made according to the description of Klemens STADLER mit Max REINHART: "Deutsche Wappen Bd.VII Nordrhein-Westfalen", Bremen 1972  [sta 72] . According to Peter VEDDELER: "Wappen-Siegel-Flaggen, die kommunalen Hoheitszeichen der Kreise, Städte und Gemeinden in Westfalen-Lippe"; ISBN 3-87023-252-8. [ved 03] there exists another version with the coat of arms in the centre of the red stripe.
Visiting Rheine in the 70's and 80's of the 20th century I have never ever seen the flag with coat of arms. Only the simpler version had been used.
Rheine is the biggest city of Steinfurt county. It is located on both sides of river Ems at the very north end of the county south of the border of Lower Saxony. The city was part of the archbishopric of Münster until 1803. The flags colours are those of the archbishopric.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jun 2007

The flags ratio is 3:5. It is a yellow over red over yellow flag. In the centre of the red stripe is the city's coat of arms.
Authorized: 24 March 1976 by Regierungspräsident Münster
Source: Peter VEDDELER:"Wappen-Siegel-Flaggen, die kommunalen Hoheitszeichen der Kreise, Städte und Gemeinden in Westfalen-Lippe" ; ISBN 3-87023-252-8; p.497
(Note: according to VEDDELER there is no banner, the flag without coat of arms was still used in the 80ies of the 20th century, I never saw this version.)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Nov 2007

Flag without CoA

[Rheine city flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jun 2007
Flag adopted 24 Mar 1976

CoA

[Rheine coat of arms] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jun 2007

Description of coat of arms: It is a golden (=yellow) shield with a red fess superimposed by three golden (=yellow) 6-point stars.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jun 2007