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Oerlinghausen city (Germany)

Stadt Oerlinghausen, Lippe County, North Rhine-Westphalia

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[Oerlinghausen flag] 5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Mar 2007
Flag adopted ?

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City of Oerlinghausen

Oerlinghausen - The ratio of the banner is 5:2.
Description: It is a yellow-white-red tricolour superimposed with the coat of arms.
Description of coat of arms: The shield shows a red sky upon a yellow hill. The hill is superimposed by a red rose. In the sky there is a white sailplane, facing the hoist (of the flag, not the banner). The rose and the colours yellow and red mark the affiliation to the Principality of Lippe. The sail-planes airport is the main attraction of the municipality.
Source: spotted on 25 may 2006 in front of the townhall.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Mar 2007

Horizontal flag

[Oerlinghausen horizontal flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jun 2007
Flag adopted ?

It is a yellow over white over red horizontal tricolour with the coat of arms shifted to the hoist. The flags ratio is 3:5.
(note: I have never seen this flag, but there is an image in http://kommunalflaggen.de/ based on the sheets of the manufacturer "Weserflaggen", I chose the same colours like that of the hanging flag, for I know, that those colours are used and I don't believe in different colours of flag and hanging flag; the CoA I have already described together with the hanging flag)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jun 2007

Simple horizontal flag

[Simple horizontal flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jun 2007
Flag adopted ?

It is a horizontal yellow over white over red tricolour. The ratio of flag is 3:5. Probably the flags without coat of arms were valid in times, the city belonged to Lemgo county, which is today part of Lippe county.
Source: Klemens STADLER, images by Max REINHART: "Deutsche Wappen Bd.7 Nordrhein-Westfalen", Bremen 1972, p.76.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 15 Jun 2007

Simple banner

[Oerlinghausen simple flag] 5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Mar 2007
Flag adopted ?

There is a simplified version of the banner without coat of arms. I spotted it in front of the Niklas-Luhmann-Gymnasium (school) on 25 May 2006.
You can see the flag of Oerlinghausen on http://kommunalflaggen.de/, the red colour there is however too dark and a bit brownish.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 Mar 2007