![[Plön county flag off-centred CoA]](../images/d/de-pl.gif)
Last modified: 2013-02-16 by klaus-michael schneider
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image by Jörg Majewski, 11 Dec 2007
Plön County (Kreis Plön) has an area of 1.082,57 km2, with a population of 135.000.
It consists of 86 municipalities: 3 cities, 7 municipalities (amtsfreie Gemeinden), and another 76 municipalities in 7 subcounties (Ämter). with altogether 76 municipalities.
An "Amt" is a combination of several cities and municipalities within an administrative community, a subdivision of a county.
Jörg Majewski, 11 Dec 2007
Description of flag:
The flag's ratio is 3:5. It is a white flag, bordered by a blue stripe at the top and a red one at the bottom. The ratio of the stripes is estimated 2:5:2. The coat of arms is in the white stripe and shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,9 Jul 2007
![[Plön county flag centred CoA]](../images/d/de-pl07.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,9 Jul 2007
Though the roll of arms claimes an off-centred coat of arms, the version I spotted showed centred arms with silver realized as a light grey shade.
Source: I spotted this flag on 2 July 2007 at "Am Lübschen Tor" in Plön.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,9 Feb 2013
![[Plön county CoA]](../images/d/de-pl).gif)
image located by Jörg Majewski, 11 Dec 2007
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided per fess by a silver(=white) wavy line. On the base is a silver(=white) fish in a blue field, facing the dexter side. On dexter chief is a silver(=white) leaf of an oak, on the center chief is a silver(=white) nettle-leaf, on the sinister chief is a silver(=white) ear of grain, all in a red field.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,9 Jul 2007
Plön County was established in 1867. The subcounty (Amt) and the city of Plön were connected with the city of Lütjenburg, the monasterial district of Preetz, the village of Karköhl, which had belonged to the Hansa City of Lübeck, and 35 manors. The municipalities of Gaarden (1901) and Ellerbek (1910) were ceded to Kiel. In 1932 a big part of the dissolved county of Bordesholm was incorporated. The county had no proper coat of arms until WW2. In 1948 (acc. to Roll of Arms) a coat of arms was adopted, what acc. to Stadler happened on 21 December 1955. Since 1140 Plön was an important stronghold of the county of Schauenburg. From 1290 until 1390 Plön had been the residence of the Plön branch of the counts of Schauenburg-Holstein, and from 1623 until 1761 the residence of a branch of the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
Sources: Stadler 1964, p.74; Reißmann 1997,p.30 and Ralf Hartemink
The flag was approved on 12 May 1975. The coat of arms was approved on 25 October 1948.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Feb 2013
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