Last modified: 2020-02-28 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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The following municipalities and the subcounty itself don't have proper flags: Meddewade, Neritz and Rethwisch.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2020
![[Grabau municipal flag]](../images/d/de-od-01-gb.gif)
3:5
image by Jörg Majewski, 25 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
n a golden (= yellow) shield over a blue fess wavy impends a green hill crowned by six green linden trees with black stems.
Meaning:
The fess wavy is symbolising the Norderbeste, a local creek. The hill is one example of the numerous tumuli from the Bronze Age in Grabau.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.148
The flag was approved on 2 June 2005. The coat of arms was approved on 5 November 1987. The artist is Renate Böttger from Stapelfeld.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
![[Lasbek municipal flag]](../images/d/de-od-01-la.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2020
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2020
Shield parted per bend sinister, above right Azure four impending barrulets wavy Or in pale, beneath left Argent, a sinister facing embowed salmon haurient Gules.
Meaning:
The municipality was established in 1974 by a merger of Lasbek-Dorf (= village), Lasbek-Gut (=estate), Barkenhorst and Krumbek. The former villages are represented by the barrulets wavy. The name of the municipality is derived from Lasbeke (= creek of salmons), represented by the fish.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2020
The arms were approved on 20 June 2002. The flag was approved on 23 October 2013. The artist is Tim Unverhau from Elmenhorst.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Feb 2020
![[Pölitz municipal flag]](../images/d/de-od-01-pz.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 23 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
The shield is divided by a silver (= white) fess wavy into blue over red. Above are four golden (= yellow) ears of grain ordered per fess. Below is a silver (= white) urn.
Meaning:
The ears are symbolising agriculture, their number the settlement cores of Pölitz, Schwienköben, Schulenburg and Schmachthagen. The fess wavy is representing the Barnitz, a local creek. The urn was found in the municipality during archaeological excavations.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 7 May 2001. The coat of arms was approved on 9 March 2000. The artist is Hans Frieder Kühne from Barsbüttel.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
![[Rümpel municipal flag]](../images/d/de-od-01-rp.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
It is a green flag. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
The shield is green. A silver (=white) alley of cobblestones comes out of the base. Two demi-millwheels issuants of the same colour are coming out from the dexter and sinister edge
Meaning:
The millwheels are representing the watermills and settlement cores of Höftenklinken, incorporated 1928, and Rohlfshagen, incorporated on 1 January 1978. The alleyway is representing the settlement core of Rümpel proper.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The coat of arms was approved on 20 December 2002. The artist is Tim Unverhau of Elemenhorst. The flag is neither mentioned in the Roll of Arms nor in the local Hauptsatzung.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
![[Steinburg(Kreis Stormarn) municipal flag]](../images/d/de-od-01-sb.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 26 Aug 2006
It is a green flag, divided by a horizontal white stripe. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
In a silver (= white) shield are a red, embattled tower (dexter side) and a green oak leaf (sinister side).
Meaning:
The red tower is a canting element, symbolising a castle made of stone, i.e. Steinburg. The municipality was generated, when Eichede, Mollhagen and Sprenge merged in 1978. Name giver was a nearby forest district. The leaf is symbolising:
1) Eichede and thus is also canting.
2) an entry in a register from 1709, where the three municipalities were called "Stormanian wood villages" (stormansche Holzdörfer), which had to provide timber and charcoal.
3) the nowadays conservation of nature and environment.
The leaf is bigger than the castle, because nature lasts longer then any act of mankind.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.327
The flag was approved on 9 December 2002. The coat of arms was approved on 31 August 1989.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
![[Travenbrück municipal flag]](../images/d/de-od-01-tv.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 24 Aug 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
The shield is divided by a silver (= white) bend sinister wavy into red over blue. Above right is a silver (= white) building. Below from end to end is a silver (= white) bridge crossing the bend.
Meaning:
The building is Nütschau Manor, established in 1577 by Heinrich Rantzau, nowadays a convent of the Benedictian Priory of St. Ansgar. The bridge crossing the bend wavy, which symbolises the Trave River, is a canting element, symbolising the name and the connection between the numerous settlements, which form nowadays Travenbrück. The municipalities of Schlamersdorf and Sühlen, both established 1870, merged in 1970. The new municipality was called Travenberg. In 1928 the manor districts (Gutsbezirke) of Tralau, Nütschau and Neverstaven and the village of Vinzier merged. The new municipality was called Tralau. When Tralau and Travenberg merged in 1978, the new municipality was called Travenbrück.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.346
The flag was approved on 10 September 2002. The coat of arms was approved on 13 July 1990. The artist is Renate Böttger from Stapelfeld.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Feb 2013
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