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Oberhausen city (Germany)

Kreisfreie Stadt Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia

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[City of Oberhausen flag] 5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 26 Feb 2001 See also:

City of Oberhausen

Blue-white with the arms. Sources: flag from Staack 1997, arms from Stadler 1964-1971 (the mural crown I added myself, based on some poor quality image I found in Internet). The statutes of the city, available at the city website just say that the flag is divided blue and white along the long side.
Stefan Schwoon, 26 Feb 2001

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website: Oberhausen grew from a unimportant village to a large industrial town in the last century and became a city in 1874. The arms show the symbols for mining (hammer), trade (stick of Mercure) and industry (tools and wheel). The arms were granted in 1888 by King William I of Prussia. The original colours of the first quarter (black and white, the Prussian colours) were replaced in 1952.
Literature: Stadler 1964-1971.
Santiago Dotor, 21 Dec 2001

horizontal flag

[City of Oberhausen horizontal flag] 5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 26 Feb 2001

City of Oberhausen(Northrhine-Westphalia)               n.c.
The flags ratio is 3:5. It is a blue over white horizontal bicolour.
The flag was used since 1952.
Source: Klemens STADLER, images by Max REINHART: "Deutsche Wappen Bd.VII Nordrhein-Westfalen", Bremen 1972; p.74.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Jul 2007