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by Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003
Image based on Guenther's book on flags in the region of the former East
Brandenburg, now Northwest Poland.
Neubecker 1939
Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003
![[Dębno official flag]](../images/p/pl-zp_de.gif)
by Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003
Image based on Guenther's book on flags in the region of the former East
Brandenburg, now Northwest Poland
Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003
image
by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 June 2019
It is a yellow-red-yellow triband with ratio stripes 1:5:1. In the centre of the red stripe is the coat of arms without shield.
Neubecker 1939, p.95
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 June 2019
![[Dębno coat of arms]](../images/p/pl-zp)de.gif)
image from this webpage,
spotted by Jens Pattke, 24 February 2003
Shield Gules, a lion rampant Or, armed and tongued Azure.
Meaning:
The
village Damm was first mentioned in 1262, when Johann I and Otto III, Margraves
of Brandenburg donated the city to the Templars. In 1540 Margrave Hans of
Brandenburg-Küstrin acquired the village from the Order of St. John and gave it
to his wife Katharina of Braunschweig as a gift. She settled Dutch clothiers in
the village, who had been persecuted because of their Protestant faith. The
settlers established factories and their settlement Neudamm flourished and
gained city rights in 1562. Damm itself remained an own village. Neudamm became
a centre of the production of cloth and wool during the next centuries. At the
end of WW2 the German inhabitants were expelled and replaced by Polish people
from other parts of the country, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union. The
arms displaying a lion may refer to the Welfen kin, to which the founder
Katharina of Braunschweig belonged.
Source:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%c4%99bno#Geschichte
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 June 2019
