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Düsseldorf city (Germany)

Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia

Last modified: 2007-10-27 by santiago dotor
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[City of Düsseldorf flag] 5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 24 Feb 2001 See also:

City of Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia and has 568,000 inhabitants.
Kai A. Hamm, 23 Jun 2000

Red-white with the arms in banner [hanging flag] form. Source: flag from Staack 1997, arms from Stadler 1964-1971.
Stefan Schwoon, 24 Feb 2001

Colours from the arms. From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website: The town got city rights in 1288 by Count Adolf von Berg. The seal used from that day showed a church, the ante-seal showed a double-tailed lion, derived from the arms of Von Berg. In a 16th century seal the lion is shown with an anchor. Ever since the seals and arms of the town showed a lion and an anchor. The position of the anchor changed several times through the centuries, as did the colour. The present arms date from about 1868. The additions of 1974 did not change the arms.
Literature: Stadler 1964-1971 and Nagel 1986.
Santiago Dotor, 19 Dec 2001

Horizontal flag

[Horizontal flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 July 2007

City of Düsseldorf (Northrhine-Westphalia)
The flags ratio is 3:5. It is a red over white horizontal bicolour.
According to source there also a different version with the coat of arms had existed.
Source: Klemens STADLER, images by Max REINHART: "Deutsche Wappen Bd.VII Nordrhein-Westfalen" Bremen 1972; p.35.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 July 2007