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Rhein-Erft County (Germany)

Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Northrhine-Westphalia

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image by Stefan Schwoon, 6 Feb 2001
approved 20 April 1976

Rhein-Erft County

See also:

Rhein-Erft cities and municipalities
Northrhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Germany

Rhein-Erft County

The flag is horizontally divided black-dark yellow-black in proportions 1:4:1, the arms shifted to the hoist.
Source: Erich Dieter Linder, Die Flaggen deutscher Landkreise (Flags of German counties), in Der Flaggenkurier no. 2, 1996, pp. 4-10. I used the arms found in Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website, original source is Nagel 1986, approved 20 April 1976, according to Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website.
Stefan Schwoon, 6 Feb 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:
The arms were granted on April 20, 1976. The arms show the lion of Jülich and the cross of Köln. The former county Bergheim was mainly a territory owned by the counts of Jülich in former times, whereas the [former] county Köln was ruled by the bishops of that city. The wavy fess in the upper part represents the Erft, the small river that gives the county its name.
Source: R. Nagel, Rheinisches Wappenbuch [Rhenanian Armorial], Köln, 1986.
Santiago Dotor, 26 Oct 2001

Erftkreis county has been renamed to Rhein-Erft-Kreis (Rhein-Erft county), effective 1 November 2003.
Source: Rhein-Erft County website.
Stefan Schwoon, 8 Dec 2003

The city of Bergheim is the capital of the county.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Jan 2012

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