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![[Amt Langballig flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 12 Apr 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms). (The lion is shifted to the hoist).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
In a blue shield is a golden (= yellow) statant lion placed between two golden (= yellow) fesses wavy.
Meaning:
The lion is taken from the arms of the Duchy of Schleswig but in counterchanged colours. The two wavy fesses are symbolising the Munkbrarup Au and the Langballig Au, two local creeks.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.48
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 3 December 1994. The artist is Peter Jensen from Kragholm.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
![[Dollerup municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08-do.gif)
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image by Jörg Majewski, 27 Apr 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms). The figures of the shield are shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per fess. Above in a blue field is a silver (= white) wolf's head tongued red. Below in a golden (= yellow) field is a red heart pierced by two black arrows ordered per saltire.
Meaning:
The colours are those of the county. The tierced heart had been the symbol of the Husby subdistrict (Harde), to which the municipality belonged. The wolf's head is reminding on former hunting of wolves, which took place here.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 24 November 2000. The coat of arms was approved on 11 August 1998. The artist is Christa Paulsen from Dollerup.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
The municipality has no proper flag.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Mar 2020
![[Langballig municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08-lb.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 20 Apr 2006
It is a blue over white over blue horizontal triband with ratio approx. 1:6:1. The coat of arms is in the centre of the white stripe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per pale. The dexter side shows a bit more than a half of a red millwheel in a silver (= white) field. The sinister side shows a silver (= white) triangular sail in a blue field. On the red base is a silver (= white) plough.
Meaning:
The three parts of the shield are symbolising the former municipalities of Langballig, Langballigholz and Unewatt. The plough is symbolising Langballig proper, a rural farmers' settlement, first mentioned about 1450. The sail is symbolising Langballigholz and its harbour Langballigau on the shores of the Baltic sea. The millwheel is symbolising Unewatt, where a watermill was located. Unewatt Estate had been divided into lots in 1758.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.220
The flag was approved on 20 November 1984. The coat of arms was approved on 12 July1984.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
![[Munkbrarup municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08-mu.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 15 Apr 2006
It is a blue over yellow horizontal bicolour. The figures of the coat of arms are shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
In a golden (= yellow) field is a blue grid iron. A golden (= yellow) statant lion tongued red is in the blue chief.
Meaning:
Munkbrarup had been the capital of the Brarup subdistrict (Harde) and had a proper church since 1200. A bit later the village became the owner of the monastery of Rude. Since than the name was changed into Munkbrarup, the monks' Brarup. The grid iron, an attribute of St. Lorenz, was taken from the monastery's seal. The lion is taken from the arms of the duchy of Schleswig, but in counterchanged colours. In the arms of the former county there had been two lions.The colours are also alluding to the dissolved county of Flensburg-Land, to which Munkbrarup belonged until 1974.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.246
The flag was approved on 14 November 1991. The coat of arms was approved on 12 February 1985. The artist is Frenz Stüdtje from Munkbrarup.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Dec 2012
![[Ringsberg municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08-ri.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 10 Apr 2006
It is a blue over yellow horizontal bicolour. Above in the middle are yellow charges, a sheaf, an annulet and an oak leaf. Below in a yellow field is a black megalithic tomb.
Meaning:
The annulet is a canting element. The sheaf is symbolising the settlement core of Ranmark and its rural environment. The oak leaf also is canting and symbolising the settlement core of Süderholz. The tomb is located in the settlement core of Fellesby. The colours blue and yellow are those of the duchy of Schleswig.
Sources: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online and Reißmann 1997, p.292
The flag was approved on 18 January 2001. The coat of arms was approved on 1 August 1991. The artists are Klaus Bohle and M. Schneekloth.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Dec 2012
![[Wees municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08-we.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 13 Apr 2006
It is an armourial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per bend sinister. Above right in a golden (= yellow) field is a blue scythe. Below left in a blue field is a row of five golden (= yellow) reed maces.
Meaning:
The number of the reed maces is symbolising the former villages of Oxb?ll, Rothenhaus, Ulstrup and Wees and the farm of Rosgaard. The maces are also a canting element, the name of the municipality means swamp. The scythe as a rural tool is symbolising farming and agriculture. The colours and the division of the shield are alluding to the county. The colours are also symbolising the former duchy of Schleswig.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.358
The flag was approved on 5 January 1988. The coat of arms was approved on 8 July 1985.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Dec 2012
![[Westerholz municipal flag]](../images/d/de-sl-08-wh.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 25 Apr 2006
It is blue over yellow horizontal bicolour. Both stripes are divided by a double, horizontal, wavy line, white over blue. The figures from the coat of arms are shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Dec 2012
The shield is divided per bend sinister. Above right in a blue field is a golden (= yellow) oak leaf. Below left in a golden (= yellow) field is a wheel with eight spokes. The shield has a base of blue and silver (= white) waves.
Meaning:
The colours are those of the county and the former duchy of Schleswig. The leaf is a canting element, represented in the name by the suffix "-holz". The wheel is symbolising the agricultural tradition and the agility of the inhabitants. Most of them today are working in nearby Flensburg. The waves are symbolising the Flensburg Firth.
Source: Reißmann 1997,p.364
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 25 October 1993. The artists are Hans Frieder Kühne and M. Schneekloth.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Dec 2012
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