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| Municipality or Gemeinde | colours |
| Flottwedel | yellow-blue-yellow |
| Kirchlingen | red-yellow-red |
| Kreiensen | red-yellow |
| Ilsede | red-yellow |
| Holtriehm | yellow-green |
| Düdenbüttel | white-red |
| Sehnde | yellow-red-yellow |
| Bodenteich | white-red |
| Duderstadt | yellow-blue |
| Edemissen | blue-yellow-blue |
| Brome | red-white-red |
| Sickte | green-yellow |
| Wittmund | red-green-red |
| Wesendorf | red-blue-red |
| Northeim | blue-white |
| Ostrhauderfehn | red-yellow |
| Rehden | red-yellow |
| Rehburg-Loccum | red-white |
| Jemgum | green-yellow |
| Südbrookmerland | red-yellow |
| Uplengen | black-white |
| Brockel | yellow-blue-yellow |
| Emmerthal | yellow-blue |
The names of the municipalities contain a number of spelling mistakes,
and some have become renamed or incorporated into other municipalities.
This is a list of corrections/updates:
- Flottwedel: now part of Wietzendorf
- Kirchlingen: doesn't exist, maybe Kirchlinteln is meant?
- Holtriehm: possibly Holtriem, a Samtgemeinde (an association
of several small municipalities) in the county Wittmund.
- Bodenteich: was recently declared a spa and is now named Bad Bodenteich
Stefan Schwoon, 11 Feb 2002
HOLTRIEHM is indeed wrong. It should be HOLTRIEM = region with wood
('Holt' is the Lower-German variant of 'Holz' = wood). 'Riem'
= Region'. The Holtriem homepage is here,
with the CoA described below. It's a commune just north of Aurich.
The flag is two horizontal stripes, yellow-green with in the centre
the coats of arms: "Quarterly: I en IV: Vert, four golden discs ranged
bendwise or, each charged with two concentric rings sable; II: Or, a Dutch
windmill gules; III: Or, three fesses wavy azure". The 4=4=8 antique discs
symbolize the eight members of the Samtgemeinde Holtriem. They also remember
the two in 1872 in Terheide (then comm.of Westerholt) discovered goldscales
from the Bronze-age. The scales had circles (as now in these arms).
The windmill points to the many windmills ever been here. These mostly
had been build in red bricks. The feeses wavy point to the 'Ewiges Meer'
('Eternal Lake), the biggest known lake in the German peat-moor.
Arms authorized by the Regierungspraesident in Aurich 18 Apr 1975.
Colours: Gold and green symbolise also the mixture of moor- and sandsoil
and meadows. Green also refer to the rich forests, that have ever been
here.
Source: Letter to me d.d. 23 Sep 2002.
Hans van Heijningen, 30 Apr 2003
image by Pascal Gross, 20 Mar 2003
I found this on the website
of the region of Hanover. Can we expect regional Lower Saxony flags?
The Region Hanover has its own flag: the colors are red and gold and
can be shown with the arms. The arms: parted per fess Gules, a lion passant
Or, armed and langued Azure, and Or, a trefoil proper barbed Or.
Pascal Vagnat, 16 Mar 2003
Pascal Vagnat reports in the German mailing list the flag of the Lower
Saxony region of Hannover. The flag is described as red and gold and may
bear the region's arms. I wonder whether the region of Hannover has the
same territory as the former State of Hannover.
However the new arms of Region Hannover as of 12th March 2002 is: "Gules,
in chief a lion passant Or and in base a trefoil Argent barbed of the field".
Santiago Dotor, 20 Mar 2003
Erich Dieter Linder shows this flag on his
website. I have made a gif of it.
Pascal Gross, 20 Mar 2003
No. The "Region" Hannover was formed on 1 Nov 2001 by the city of Hannover
(engl. Hanover) and the munipalities of the former Landkreis (county) Hannover.
The Landkreis was dissolved in the process.
You can see a map of the counties of Lower Saxony here.
Stefan Schwoon, 20 Mar 2003
![[Municipality of Garstedt (Lower Saxony, Germany)]](../images/d/de-ni-ga.gif)
image by António Martins
Garstedt is a small town southeast of Hamburg, Kreis Harburg.
On this webpage
[broken link] of the independent voters (Unabhängige Wählergemeinschaft)
of Garstedt appear the flag and coat-of-arms. The coat-of-arms is canting,
as spear in old Germanic was gar.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Feb 2000
![[Garstedt coat-of-arms (Lower Saxony, Germany)]](../images/d/de-ni)ga.gif)
image from this
webpage [broken link].