Last modified: 2020-04-07 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: bad doberan land | boergerende-rethwisch | ostseebad nienhagen | hohenfelde(mecklenburg) | fish | seagull | rooster | sallow thorn | chestnut(leaf) |
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![[Bad Doberan city flag]](../images/d/de-rc-bd.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,
The subcounty has no proper symbols.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Mar 2020
The following municipalities have no proper flags: Admannshagen-Bargeshagen, Bartenshagen-Parkentin, Hohenfelde, Reddelich and Steffenshagen.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Mar 2020
![[Börgerende-Rethwisch municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rc-11-br.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2007
It is a blue (FIAV-codeB-) over white horizontal bicolour with the coat of arms in the centre of the flag. The colours of the coat of arms are inverted to those of the flag.
Source: I spotted this flag on 8 December 2006 in Börgerende-Rethwisch in front of the firebrigade-station.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2007
The shield is parted per fess wavy line. In the blue base is a silver (= white) fish (looks like a haddock or cod) facing the hoist. In the silver (= white) chief are two crossed red shelves connected with a black nail (depicted as a dot) and ending in heads of horses.
Meaning:
Those shelves are also today fixed on both ends of the ridge on top of the gables of farmhouses in Northern Germany from Flensburg down to the northern parts of Westphalia. In memory of Sleipnir, the horse with 8 legs, those crossed shelves were devoted to the pagan God Wodan (Odin in Scandinavia) in order to give protection.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2007
Flag and arms were approved on 9 August 2000 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.223.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Mar 2007
![[Hohenfelde municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rc-11-hf.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Apr 2020
It is a green-yellow-green horizontal triband with ratio of stripes 1:6:1. In the middle of the yellow stripe is a green chestnut leaf.
Source: image provided per email by Klaus Günther on 2 April 2020
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Apr 2020
![[Hohenfelde municipal CoA]](../images/d/de-rc-11-hf).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Ivan Sache, 4 Apr 2020
Shield Or, a chestnut leaf Vert, issuant from base a mount Vert.
Meaning:
The hill is a canting element, as the name of the municipality means "location on a hill". The leaf is alluding to the many chestnuts besides the local alleyway. Furthemore it is representing a round village, the preferred form of settlement alongside the border between Germans and Slavic tribes. That form had a central square and a frontier of surrounding gables.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.231
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Apr 2020
The arms were approved on 28 January 2002 and the flag was approved on 3 December 2012 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Both were published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.256
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Apr 2020
![[Nienhagen municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rc-11-ni.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Jan 2012
It is a blue-white-blue vertical triband with ratio 1:2:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the central stripe.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.239
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Jan 2012
In a blue shield is a silver (= white) flying seagull above two wavy barrulets.
Meaning:
Seagull and waves are alluding to the location on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.239
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Jan 2012
Flag and arms were approved on 8 December 1997 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.100.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Jan 2012
![[Retschow municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rc-11-rt.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
It is a black-yellow vertical bicolour with ratio of stripes 1:3. The coat of arms is in the centre of the yellow stripe.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.232
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
Shield Or a rooster passant Sable, chief embattled Gules, shield mantled reversed Vert, on either side charged with a grain ear Or, at dexter in bend, at sinister in bend sinister.
Meaning:
The chief embattled is alluding to Retschow castle, which was first mentioned in 1302. The rooster is referring to an urban legend. As in the neighbouring city of Neubukow during the carnival of 1729 a fire broke out, the rooster made a noise and warned the people of the village. The grain ears are symbolising agriculture.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.232
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
The arms were approved on 2 October 2000, the flag on 6 March by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.231.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
![[Wittenbeck municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rc-11-wb.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
It is a green-white-blue horizontal tricolour with ratio of stripes 1:7:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the white stripe.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.252-253
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
Shield parted by a bend wavy Argent, above left Azure three scallops Argent ordered 2:1, beneath Vert a sallow thorn branch Sable in bend with six leaves Argent and six seaberries Or.
Meaning:
The name of the municipality is derived from Lower German "Wittenbäk" (= white creek). The bend wavy is thus a canting element. Scallops, thorn and tinctures are alluding to the location on the shore of the Baltic. Furthermore the sallow thorn (Latin: Hippophae rhamnoides) is a typical plant in the area.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.252-253
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
Flag and arms were approved on 3 April 1997 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.124.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Mar 2020
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