Last modified: 2022-10-14 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: fintel(sg) | fintel | lauenbrueck | helvesiek | stemmen | vahlde | discs(5) | bar(wavy) | crow | horseheads(crossed) | oak(leaf) | cross(patty;fitchy) | lion(blue) | passant | bridge |
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![[SG Fintel flag]](../images/d/de-rb-02.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of flag:
It is a white flag. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: municipal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of coat of arms:
The silver (= white) shield is divided by two blue bars wavy. Three green discs ordered per fess are between the two bars. To more discs also ordered per fess are in the base.
Meaning:
The wavy bars are symbolizing the two little rivers Wümme and Fintau. Each disc is representing one of the municipalities belonging to Fintel. Those are Fintel proper, Helvesiek, Lauenbrück (seat of the comprehensive municipality), Stemmen and Vahlde.
Source: municipal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
![[Fintel municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rb-02-fi.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of flag:
It is a white flag. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: I spotted this flag in front of the municipal office on 25 November 2013.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is quarterly divided into silver (= white) (quarters 1 and 4) and red (quarters 2 and 3). The centre is superimposed by a tiny, black cross patty. The first field displays a red silhouette of a crow. The second field displays a bendy silver (= white) oak leaf. The other quarters display shelves crossed per saltire with horseheads on their tops in counterchanged colours.
Meaning:
The quarters are probably symbolizing agiculture (bottom) and nature (top). The horseheads are typical elements on top of the gables of Lower Saxonian farmhouses. The crow probably is symbolizing the Krähenberg , i.e. crows' hill. The oak leaf maybe symbolize a local nature reserve in the upper Fintau valley. The little cross is either symbolizing the local church of Antonians or the Bishopric of Verden, to which the church belonged.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
![[Lauenbrück flag]](../images/d/de-rb-02-la.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of flag:
It is a yellow over blue over yellow horizontal triband with ratio 1:2:1. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag.
Source: municipal webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
![[Lauenbrück]](../images/d/de-rb-02_la.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of banner:
It is a yellow - blue - yellow vertical triband with ratio 1:3:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Stefan Schwoon's database, based on Main State Archive Hannover, entry from 3 September 1959
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
Description of coat of arms:
The golden (= yellow) shield has a blue base. A blue, passant lion, armed and tongued red is crossing a wooden bridge (black and silver (= white). He is holding a black and silver (= white) cross fitchy in his right forepaw.
Meaning: Blue and golden are the colours of the Welfen kin. Also the blue lion is alluding to that family (I don't know which of the numerous branch lines). The cross is alluding to the Bishopric of Verden. The bridge is a canting element. The blue base maybe symbolize the confluence of Wümme and Fintau in Lauenbrück.
Source: I spotted these arms on a plate in front of the local town hall on 25 November 2013
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Nov 2013
According to source the municipalities Helvesiek, Stemmen and Vahlde have no proper flags.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 July 2017
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