Last modified: 2020-02-06 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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![[Itzehoe flag)]](../images/d/de-iz-iz.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 1 Jun 2006
The following municipalities don't have proper flags: [source given in brackets]
Bekdorf [Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online]
Krummendiek [Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online]
Moorhusen [Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online]
Oldendorf [Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online]
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Feb 2020
![[Bekmünde flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-bm.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 7 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is tierced per pall reverse by silver (= white) wavy lines. The fields above left and right are plain green. The field below is blue containing a silver (= white),open flood-gate over a sinister facing sturgeon of the same colour.
Meaning:
The wavy lines are symbolising the mouth of the Bekau. The gates are symbolising the former Watergate in this place. The sturgeon (German: Stör) is alluding to the river having the same name.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 6 December 2001. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Drage flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-dr.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is divided by a silver (=white) fess wavy. Below in a blue field is a silver (= white) boat with a rudder. Above in a green field are two golden (= yellow) panicles of oat between three beech leaves of the same colour. The shield has a golden (= yellow) embattled chief.
Meaning:
The green colour together with beech and oat are symbolising agriculture and forestry. The wavy line is symbolising the Bekau, a creek. The boat is alluding to the fact that the village had been a staple market. The golden colour is alluding to local Friedrichsruh palace. The three pinnacles are alluding to the former hamlets of Schäferei/Dorfstraße, Hansch and Tiergarten, which belonged to Drage estate.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 8 January 2002 . The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Heiligenstedten flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-hs.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Jun 2006
It is a blue over white horizontal bicolour. The municipal coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The blue base is divided by three silver (=white) fesses wavy. In a silver (=white) field a red sailing boat is passing an open flap bridge of the same colour.
Meaning:
The existence oft he village can be proven since the end oft he 11th century as "Holigenstat", which was located on both banks of the Stör river. The bridge had been erected in the 16th century. The base is symbolising Stör river. The colours are those of Schleswig-Holstein.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.172
The flag was approved on 19 April 1985. The coat of arms was approved on 10 August 1951. The artist is Paul Holtorf from Itzehoe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Heiligenstedtenerkamp flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-hk.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 9 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
The shield is quarterly divided into golden (= yellow) and green. The 1st quarter shows a green small cottage, the 2nd quarter a golden (= yellow) pickaxe, the 3rd quarter a golden (= yellow) spade, the 4th quarter a green wheel.
Meaning:
The charges are the mirror of a tenant's life in compulsory service of Heiligenstedten Palace, the typical tools and houses.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 3 June 2004. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Hodorf flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-ho.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The green shield is divided by a silver (= white) omega-shaped ribbon, nebuly with one "cloud". Beneath the ribbon is a golden (= yellow) post built hall standing on alternating black and golden (= yellow) pillars.
Meaning:
The green colour is symbolising the marshes. The white ribbon is symbolising a local meander of Stör river. The house of that type used in the 2nd century AD.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 15 September 2003. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Hohenaspe flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-ha.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Freb 2020
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Feb 2020
Shield Or, on a mount Vert issuant from base a church Gules with wooden belfry, in sinister chief an aspen leaf Vert.
Meaning:
The church as parish church of Aspe village was first mentioned in 1281. It has ever been a landmark, and as it was located on top of a hill the village was renamed to Hohenaspe. An urban legend will know that the belfry by an earthquake in 1648 was moved nearer to the rest of the church. The aspen (German: Espe) leaf is a canting element and also taken from the family arms of the Krummendieck kin, who endowed the local church. The colours green and gold are referring to the landscape. Green is representing the marshes and yellow the moraines.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p. 180
The flag was approved on 19 September 2013. The arms were approved on 1 September 1988. The artist was Hannelore von Engelhardt.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Feb 2020
![[Huje flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-hu.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jan 2020
It is a blue-white-red horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jan 2020
The arms are based on a seal and don't match heraldic rules, they are thus not described by any official source. Anyway, let's give it a try: Shield Argent wirh base wavy of Azure and Argent, issuant from base a fess Gules, at dexter superimposed by a fishing boat Gules rigged Gules, at sinister issuant from fess a farmhouse Argent garnished Sable.
Meaning:
The charges are alluding to life in the area, fishing, represented by the boat, farming, represented by the house, dyking, represented by the fess and finally the sea, represented by the base.
Source: Reißmann 1997, pp. 379-381
The seal was approved in 1946 by British Military Government. The flag had never been approved officially.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jan 2020
![[Kaaks flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-ka.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2012
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per fess wavy into silver (= white) above blue. Above beneath three grren oak leaves is a red cross section of a place surrounded by earthwork. Below is a silver (=white) bridge.
Meaning:
The cross section is symbolising the Kaaksburg, a fort from the 9th/10th century. The number of leaves is symbolising the settlement cores of Everstorf, Kaaksburg and Kaaks. Below is the Fischbauchbrücke, finished in 1909, in the waters of the Bekau.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 15 November 2011. The coat of arms was approved on 10 November 1998. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Dec 2012
![[Kleve flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-kv.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 Jun 2006
It is white flag. At the top edge is a blue stripe, at the bottom edge a green stripe. In the centre of the white stripe is a shield showing a yellow cliff, topped by a green meadow and with a green meadow at its feet. In the dexter chiefpoint is a white 8-point star on a blue sky.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
It is an "unheraldic" coat of arms, not matching basic heraldic rules.
Meaning:
Therefore the arms are not described in the roll of arms. They are based upon a seal approved by British military government in 1946. The cliff in seal and flag is canting. Furthermore is symbolised that Kleve is located across the border of marshes and moraines.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 25 April 2002. The coat of arms was approved on 6 July 1946.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Lohbarbek flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-lb.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Feb 2020
Shield Argent a bend sinister wavy abased Azure, in dexter chief a bull's head Gules caboshed harnessed Argent, in sinister base an oak leaf Gules with two acorns of the same.
Meaning:
The bend sinister wavy is representing a local creek, first mentioned in 1525 as "Loobarbeke", meaning "creek crossing a grove or meadow, where bears and boars live". The oak leaf is also canting, alluding to the grove mentioned above. The bull's head is representing cattle breading as an important business line.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.230
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 8 December 2001. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Feb 2020
![[Mehlbek flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-me.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 11 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per fess wavy into silver (= white) over blue. Above is a red, half-timbered barn flanked by two green 5-point stars on both outer chiefpoints. Below is a silver (= white) millwheel.
Meaning:
The arms are displaying the old barn from Mehlbek Estate. The millwheel is allding to the former village of Möhlenbeke, i.e.: mill on the Bekau. The green stars are symbolising the fugitives, which found a new home here after having been expelled at the end of WW2.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 8 December 2001. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Ottenbüttel flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-ot.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 11 Jun 2006
At the hoist is the pattern of the coat of arms without shield. In the flyend the sheet is horizontally divided by eight alternating red and white stripes. The length of stripes is abit more than half of total width.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per bend sinister. Above right in a silver (= white) field is a blue, rooted linden tree. Below left in a red field is a golden (= yellow), sinister facing rooster.
Meaning:
The tree is taken from the arms of the Krummendiek family. Heinrich von Ottenbüttel had been the progenitor of one branch of the Krummendiek kin, who ruled the village for more than 400 years, until it died out in 1598. The rooster is symbolising that the municipality won the award of the competition "Schönes Dorf" (beautiful village). The municipality was chosen as the most beautiful village of Schleswig-Holstein in 1969. The colours are those of the arms of Schleswig-Holstein.
Source:Reißmann 1997, p.268
The flag was approved on 27 May 1980. The coat of arms was approved on 4 January 1980.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Peissen flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-pe.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 6 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is divided by a green sinister bend wavy into silver (= white) over golden (= yellow). Above right is a red wheel surrounded by a wreath of eight green birch leaves. Below left is a red urn.
Meaning:
The bend wavy is symbolising the historical ox trail in the limits of the municipality. The leaves are symbolising the eight local subdistricts forming the municipality. The wheel is symbolising agriculture and forestry. The urn is symbolising archaeological excavations.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 8 December 2001. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Schlotfeld flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-sl.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 5 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is divided by a s-shaped line (German term: divided per snake) into golden (=yellow) and green. The dexter half is superimposed by two golden (= yellow) leaves of linden tree ordered bendily. The sinister half is superimposed by three green leaves pf linden tree also ordered bendily but in a triangular constellation. Meaning: The s-shaped line is symbolising the bek, a creek, a tributary of Rantzau creek. The leaves are symbolising the settlement cores of Amönenwarte, Rothenmühlen, Mühlenweg, Oesau and Schlotfeld. The are also alluding to a linden tree having stood on the border to Itzhoe. The tree was destroyed by a tempest in 1983. The colours are symbolising the landscape. Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 17 December 2002. The artista are Gisela Andersen from Schlotfeld and Uwe Nagel from Bergenhusen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Silzen flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-sz.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Jun 2006
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The shield is divided by a s-shaped line (German term: divided per snake) into golden (=yellow) over green. Above left is a red pyramid. Below left is golden leave of linden tree with an infructescence.
Meaning:
The red pyramid is taken from the arms of the von Seltslinger kin,local rulers first mentioned in 1342. The leaf is symbolising local woods and an alleyway of linden trees flanking the local mainstreet. The colours are symbolising the landscape.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 10 December 2003. The coat of arms was approved on 9 April 2003. The artist is Uwe Nagel from Bergenhusen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
![[Winseldorf flag]](../images/d/de-iz-03-wn.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
The green shield is divided by a silver (= white) bend sinister wavy. Above right and below left is a silver (= white) blossom of a chequered lily (Latin: Fritillaria imperialis)
Meaning:
The green colour is symbolising meadows. The bend is symbolising the Rantzau creek. The flowers are an endemic species.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 11 June 2008. The artist is Jo Schütt-Hendel from Oldendorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2012
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