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Warendorf County ( Germany)

Kreis Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia

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[Warendorf County flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Nov 2007
adopted 20 May 1976

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Warendorf County

Warendorf county (Northrhine-Westphalia)
Description of flag:
The flags ratio is 3:5. It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour with the county's coat of arms in its centre.
Description of banner:
It is a red and yellow vertical bicolour with the counties coat of arms shifted to the top.
Description of coat of arms:
The red shield is divided by a golden (=yellow) bendy wavy line. In the sinister chief and the dexter base is a golden wheel with 10 rays formed like small crescents.
Meaning:
The wavy line is taken from the coat of arms of the city of Beckum. Beckum was before the capital of another county today being the southern part of Warendorf county. The city of Beckum had however three silver lines. The tinctures had been changed to turn out, that the archbishops of Münster were rulers until 1803. The wheels are taken from the coat of arms of Warendorf's administrators (germ.: Vogt) of the archbishops. They are flowery ornaments. In 1938 they were re-interpreted as sun-wheels under NSDAP-rule.
Authorized: 20 May 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.321
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Nov 2007

Banner

[Warendorf County banner] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Nov 2007
adopted 20 May 1976

Description of banner:
It is a red and yellow vertical bicolour with the counties coat of arms shifted to the top.
Authorized: 20 May 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.321
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Nov 2007