SG Hollenstedt (Germany)

Samtgemeinde Hollenstedt, Harburg county, Lower Saxony

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Drestedt municipality

Municipality of Drestedt (Samtgemeinde* Hollenstedt; Harburg county; Lower Saxony)
Description of flag: The ratio of the flag is 3:5. It is a red over white over red tricolour with a white disk in its centre containing the municipality's coat of  arms.
Source: www.kommunalflaggen.de no.03353008
Note: The size of the disk given within source is mathematically impossible, it is probably meant to be 2/3 of height.
Description of coat of arms: The shield is divided per pale. The dexter side is three times divided per fess by alternating red and white bars (i.e. there are four bars) starting with a red one. The sinister side is a silver field with three red houses with black roofs and separating lines in a vertical order.
Source: I spotted this coat of arms on 7 October at Drestedts city limit.
Meaning: The three cottages are symbolizing the municipality's name. Drestedt was built of three hamlets. The four bars are symbolizing that Drestedt, before being an independent municipality, belonged to the four villages (German. Vierdörfer), which were Sprötze, Kakenstorf, Trelde und Drestedt.
Source: Samtgemeinde.
*A "Samtgemeinde" (SG*), also called "collective municipality" is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community  in Lower Saxony.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Oct 2007

Hollenstedt municipality

Municipality of Hollenstedt (Samtgemeinde* Hollenstedt; Harburg county; Lower Saxony)
Description of flag: The ratio of the flag is 5:2. It is a plain white flag with the municipality's coat of arms shifted to the top.
Description of coat of arms: In a red shield is a silver (=white) axe with a golden (=yellow) handle and the blade pointing to the dexter chief.
Meaning: In former days the axe was used to mark those trees, which had to be cut.
Note: Perhaps this is not an official flag.
Source: I spotted this flag on 7 October in Hollenstedt in front of the inn "Hollenstedter Hof".
*A "Samtgemeinde" (SG*), also called "collective municipality" is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community  in Lower Saxony.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Oct 2007

Moisburg municipality

Municipality of Moisburg (Samtgemeinde* Hollenstedt; Harburg county; Lower Saxony)
Description of flag: The ratio of the flag is 3:5. It is a white over blue horizontal bicolour with the coat of arms in the centre of the flag.
Source: I spotted this flag on 7 October in Moisburg in front of the townhall.
Description of coat of arms: The shield is divided per pale. On the dexter side in a silver (=white) field is a red tower crowned by five pinnacles. The tower has six black embrasures and a white line in its dexter half. The tower also has a black open gate with a half-opened silver (=white) portcullis. The sinister side is a blue field divided by a silver (=white) fess, which is superimposed by three red pales. I chose the six-embrasures version, I found at the townhall in Moisburg. The municipality's webpage shows a four-embrasures version.
Meaning: The tower is symbolizing the Mesdeborg, which gave the municipality its name. The sinister side is the coat of arms of the von-Heimbruch family, being chiefs of castle for a long time.
Source: Samtgemeinde.
*A "Samtgemeinde" (SG*), also called "collective municipality" is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community  in Lower Saxony.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Oct 2007