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Stadt Passau, Bayern

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[Passau city flag] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider based on image by Stefan Schwoon, 22 Feb 2022
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Passau City

Passau Flag

It is a red over white horizontal bicolour (editorial note: with centred arms).
Source: this online catalogue
Dieter Linder, 18 Nov 1998

Passau Banner

[Passau city banner#1]
5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 7 Mar 2001
[Passau city banner#2]
5:2 image by Stefan Schwoon, 7 Mar 2001
   

It is a red-white vertical bicolour either with centred arms (see left image above) or with arms shifted to top (see right image above).
Source: this online catalogue
Stefan Schwoon, 7 Mar 2001

Passau Coat of Arms

Shield Argent a wolf rampant Gules.
Meaning:
The arms show the wolf, taken from the arms of the Bishopric of Passau. From 1460 onwards the wolf is used alone on seals and in the arms of the city. The first time the wolf is mentioned as the arms of the city is older, from 1402. In the Arlberg armorial the arms are shown as they are today. The oldest city seals from 1368 displayed St. Stephen, the patron saint of the local cathedral, and in base an inescutcheon displaying the wolf from the arms of the bishopric. The wolf became the only symbol of the city on the rear of a city seal from 1460 and before in 1402 in the roll of arms of Arlberg, later also in other rolls of arms, oin architectural sculptures, on weapons and in literature. During the 16th centuty the shield was crested by a risen arm of the patron saint, holding a stone, depicted as a gem, being his attribute. In order to distinguish the arms of city and bishopric, in 1605 a blue bend was added, but this addition was removed again very soon.
Source: Stadler 1968, p.39
Santiago Dotor, 31 Jan 2002 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2022

Flag and banners have never been approved officially. Their colours are traditional. The arms were granted on 21 April 1368 by Duke Albrecht of Österreich and Duke Leopold of Österreich.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Feb 2022


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