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Telgte (Germany)

Stadt Telgte, Warendorf County, North Rhine-Westphalia

1:2 image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Mar 2005
adopted 31 Mar 1976

City of Telgte
Telgte CoA

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

City of Telgte

Telgte is a town 12 km east of Münster in Kreis Warendorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen. At this webpage are flag and coat of arms.
The coat of arms is: argent a young green oak with two green acorns on a green base.
It was designed in 1975 by Mr. Mallek from Münster, and adopted by municipal resolution on 13 nov 1975.

On 31 Mar 1976 the "Regierungspräsident Münster" granted the use of the new arms. At the same time the use of a new flag and seal was granted.
The flag of the town of Telgte is: three horizontal stripes proportioned 1:3:1 of white and green, with in the center the town's arms.

Telgte has c. 18.000 inhabitants and is an important place of pilgrimage because of the statue of the Virgin Mary, first mentioned in 1455. Telgte was founded in the 8th century, and first mentioned in the 11th century as "Telgoth". In 1238 it got town-rights. It was important as a bulwark against the Anabaptists c. 1534. Between 1654 and 1657 Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen (in the Netherlands better known as "Bomm'n Berend") had a chapel built for the statue of the Virgin Mary.
("Gnadenkapelle").
Jarig Bakker, 10 Mar 2005

Telgte CoA

image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Mar 2005
granted 31 Mar 1976

The coat of arms is: argent a young green oak with two green acorns on a green base.
It was designed in 1975 by Mr. Mallek from Münster, and adopted by municipal resolution on 13 nov 1975.
Source: this webpage.
Jarig Bakker, 10 Mar 2005