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Rügen County (Germany)

Landkreis Rügen, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

3:5; image by Stefan Schwoon
Flag adopted 7 Dec 1995

Rügen County

Other Rügen county pages:

City of Bergen on Ruegen

See also:

County and Municipal Flags (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Germany

Rügen County

Another flag version of the arms, scanned and colourised (modulo some pixel hunting) from Der Flaggenkurier no. 3, 1996, p. 35. Ratio is 3:5. Rügen is the largest German island, situated close to the Baltic coast.
Stefan Schwoon, 3 Feb 2001

Flag adopted 7 December 1995.
From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website: The arms were granted on January 18, 1993. The arms are derived from the 13th century arms of the Principality of Rügen, with the addition of a crown. The meaning of the old arms is not known.
Literature: Linder and Olzog 1996.
Santiago Dotor, 25 Oct 2001