Last modified: 2017-11-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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It is a red-white-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:4:1. The coat of arms is shifted to the top within the central stripe.
administration seat: Reichenbach (Odenwald)
inhabitants 7,325
Bergstraße County
Darmstadt District , state Hesse
banner approved on 21 January 1975
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 1 July 2006
Shield divided by a bar wavy Argent (charged with four wavy lines grey), above Gules two facetted 6-point stars Argent, beneath Sable an impending, facetted saltire Or.
Meaning:
The bar wavy is representing little Lauter River, name giver of the municipality. The stars are taken from the arms of the Princes of Erbach-Schönberg. The saltire is an attribute of St. Andrew, local patron saint of the church in Reichenbach, finished in 1426.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 May 2017
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