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Last modified: 2020-01-04 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: zwickau(county) | chemnitzer land | pleiszenland | bendy | lion(black) | lion(yellow and white) |
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![[Zwickau county flag]](../images/d/de-zw.gif)
3:5 
image by Klaus-Michael schneider, 2 Jan 2020
It is a red-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole der sächsischen Landkreise nach der Kreisreform von 2008", Dresden 2010, p.54
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
![[Zwickau County banner]](../images/d/de-zw_.gif)
2:1 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
It is a red-white vertical bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole der sächsischen Landkreise nach der Kreisreform von 2008", Dresden 2010, p.54
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
Shield parted per pale; at dexter Azure, a lion rampant, parted per fess of Or and Argent, armed and tongued Gules; at sinister bendy of four of Gules and Argent.
Meaning:
The dexter half displays the lion from the arms of the Pleißenland, a territory under direct imperial rule (German: reichsunmittelbar), established around 1150 by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa. The sinister half displays the arms of the Counts of Schönburg.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole der sächsischen Landkreise nach der Kreisreform von 2008", Dresden 2010, pp.29,54
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
Flag, banner and arms were approved on 4 December 2009 by district director (Landesdirektor) of Chemnitz.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
![[Chemnitzer Land county flag]](../images/d/de-zw-c1.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Feb 2007
It was a red-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole in Sachsen und seinen Stadt- und Landkreisen", Goslar 2001, p.69
Jörg Majewski, 4 Feb 2007
![[Chemnitzer Land county banner]](../images/d/de-zw-c1_.gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Feb 2007
It was a red-white vertical bicolour with arms shifted to the top.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole in Sachsen und seinen Stadt- und Landkreisen", Goslar 2001, p.69
Jörg Majewski, 4 Feb 2007
![[Chemnitzer Land county CoA]](../images/d/de-zw-c1).gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 4 Feb 2007
Shield bendy of four of Gules and Argent a lion rampant sable armed and tongued Gules.
Meaning:
The background tinctures are the arms of the Counts of Schönburg, the lion is taken from the arms of the Margraves of Meißen from the Wettin kin.
Source: Erwin Günther: "Wappen, Flaggen und Symbole in Sachsen und seinen Stadt- und Landkreisen", Goslar 2001, p.69
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
Flag, banner and arms were approved on 12 January 1995 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Chemnitz.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Jan 2020
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