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Egestorf municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Egestorf, Samtgemeinde Hanstedt, Harburg county, Lower Saxony

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[Egestorf municipality] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2007
adopted 19 Mar 1984

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Municipality of Egestorf

Municipality of Egestorf (Samtgemeinde* Hanstedt / Harburg county / Lower Saxony).
Its ratio is 3:5. It's a yellow over white horizontal bicolour superimposed by the coat of arms in the centre of the flag.
Description of coat of arms: In a red shield is a silver (=white) church with a separated bell-tower on the chief and five golden (=yellow) ears of grain on the base.
Meaning: It's a picture of the old St.Stephens (=Stephanus) church in Egestorf.
The grain symbolizes the 5 village which form the municipality. They are Egestorf, Sahrendorf, Schätzendorf , Döhle and Evendorf. The villages were united on 1 July 1972. Sahrendorf and Schätzendorf merged already in 1928.
Source: The image of the flag was made according to Hauptstaatsarchiv Hannover, where the flag was submitted on 19 March 1984, so described in http://kommunalflaggen.de/. The information about the coat of arms was taken from "Samtgemeinde Hanstedt Bürgerinformationen 2007/2008" p.30.
*A "Samtgemeinde", also called "collective municipality" is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community in Lower Saxony.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2007