Last modified: 2020-02-13 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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The following municipalities don't have proper flags: [source given in brackets]
Albsfelde [this online catalogue]
Fredeburg [this online catalogue]
Giesensdorf [this online catalogue]
Klein Zecher [this online catalogue]
Kulpin [this online catalogue]
Römnitz [this online catalogue]
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
![[Bäk municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-bk.gif)
3:5
image by Jörg Majewski, 8 Sep 2006
It is a quarterly divided flag. Both hoist quarters display the coat of arms without shield. The fly quarters are red over white.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2013
The shield is divided per fess into silver (= white) over red. Above is a blue demi-millwheel. Below is a silver (= white) Latin cross topped by a golden (= yellow) coronet.
Meaning:
The millwheel is symbolising the numerous copper mallets powered by water, which were the main business line in the 16th and 17th century. Cross and coronet are taken from the arms of the Principality of Ratzeburg, the former Bishopric of Ratzeburg, which became a part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Bäk belonged to Mecklenburg until 1945, when the British and the Soviet occupation forces signed a barter agreement.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.80
Flag and arms were approved on 22 April 1981. The artist is Siegbert Herbst from Bäk.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2013
![[Brunsmark municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-bm.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
Shield parted per S-shaped bend sinister, above Or three firs Vert, beneath Vert a sinister facing peewit statant proper.
Meaning:
The Brunsmark Firs, a grove flanking the village at three sides, was first mentioned in a local register of tithe in 1230. Numerous peewits, an endangered sprecies, have survived, especially in the Kiebitzmoor (= peewit's marsh) parcel.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and arms were approved on 30 March 2017. The artist is Wolfgang Bentin from Kastorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
![[Buchholz municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-bz.gif)
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
Shield parted per fess, above Or, a bream Azure over a crancelin Vert, bneath Sable three grain ears Or in pale ordered per fess.
Meaning:
The crancelin is alluding to the Askanian kin, who ruled the Duchy of Lauenburg as Dukes of Saxony until 1689. The grain ears are symbolising agriculture, the bream the Lauenburg Lake and its riches of fish.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
The flag was approved on 11 December 2013. The arms were approved on 30 January 1998. The artist is Renate Böttger from Stapelfeld.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
![[Einhaus municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-ei.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
It is a white flag with the coat of arms shifted tot he flyend between two impending green horizontal stripes.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
Shield Vert a wheel spider Argent on top of a pale of the same, all surrounded by a bordure of 12 alternating pieces of Argent and Sable.
Meaning:
The wheel spider is also known as Cross of St. Ansverus (1038 - 1066). He had been a Benedictine monk, who died as a martyr, aged 28, during an insurrection of the Slavic tribe of the Obotrites. In order to honour him a stone was erected in Einhaus (see: this photo). The bordure is taken from the arms of the county and its colours are alluding to the fact that the Duchy of Lauenburg belonged to Prussia from 1865 until 1945.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.128
The flag was approved on 28 April 2014. The arms were approved on 15 June 1979.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
![[Groß Disnack municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-gd.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
Shield Or a Maltese cross Gules, issuant from base a mount Vert charged with three grain ears Or in fan.
Meaning:
A dade from 1229 mentioned that Duke Albrecht I donated the villages of Pogeez and Disnack to the Order of St. John, represented by the cross. Already in 1250 Groß Disnack was sold to Reinfeld Monastery and remained its possession until 1482. The mount is representing the Klosterberg, on which the first Benedictine Monastery of St. Ansverus was erected. The grain ears are stressing the rural character of the village.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 3 April 2017. The artist is Wolfgang Bentin from Kastorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
![[Gross Grönau municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-gg.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 30 Aug 2006
On a white field with two narrow black stripes along the horizontal edges (but not touching them, cotised is the term I believe) is placed the municipal coat of arms i.e. gules a fleur-de-lis argent, a border compony argent and sable of twelve pieces.
Source: municipal web page
Jan Mertens, 15 Dec 2004
Flag and arms are the same like those of the county. The horsehead is however replaced by a silver (= white) fleur de lis.
Meaning:
All elements are taken from the symbols of the county. The lily is taken from the arms of the Gronowe family, belonging to the Lauenburgian nobility, first mentioned in 1248 and name giver of the municipality.
Groß Grönau's economy boomed in the 16th and 17th century. It gained nearly city rights and for a while it had been a residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg. All that has gone without a trace.
Source: Reißmann 1997, p.154
The flag was approved on 1 August 1980. The arms were approved on 14 September 1977.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2013
![[Groß Sarau municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-gr.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
The shield is parted by a bar wavy Argent, above Vert a thatched house Or at dexter and a horseshoe Argent at sinister, beneath Azure a rowing boat Or with oars.
Meaning:
The boat is symbolising the lakes Ratzeburger See and Blankensee and angling and sailing as well. Thatched house are typical buildings in the municipality. The horseshoe is alluding to the Old Salt Route between Lübeck and Lüneburg, which is passing the municipality.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 15 September 2015. The artist is Wolfgang Bentin from Kastorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Feb 2020
![[Harmsdorf municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-hd.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 27 Feb 2013
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2013
The shield is divided into silver (= white) and red by a blue over silver (= white) fess wavy. Above is a black plough. Below are two golden (= yellow) linden leaves.
Meaning:
The fess wavy is symbolising the Einhäuser Graben, a creek. The colours white and red may be those of the Hansa City of Lübeck. The municipality belonged to Lübeck from 1441 to 1937. The chapter of Ratzeburg gained the jurisdiction over a part of Harmsdorf in 1291. In 1295 the whole village was sold to the chapter. In 1441 Duke Bernhard II of Lauenburg ceded his rights to Lübeck. Linden trees are the predominant kind of trees in the municipality. The plough is symbolising the rural character.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 20 October 2011. The artist is Wolfgang Bentin from Kastorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2013
![[Hollenbek municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-hl.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2020
Shield parted by a bend sinister wavy decreasing to the sinister bordure and charged with a rail track Sable, above Gules a tank engine Or, beneath Vert three grain ears Or in fan.
Meaning:
The village was first mentioned in a local register of tithe in 1230 as Holembeke. The ears are stressing the rural character. Rail track and tank engine are alluding to the railway lines Hagenow-Ratzeburg-Bad Oldesloe-Neumünster, established in 1889. A railway station was finished the same year. In 1899 an additional connection to Mölln was established. The tracks meanwhile have been removed. Today there is just a short track with a handcar as a tourist attraction.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 5 August 2019. The artist is Wolfgang Bentin from Kastorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2020
![[Horst municipal flag]](../images/d/de-rz-05-ho.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2020
It is an armorial flag (banner of arms).
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2020
Shield Azure a sinister facing crane vigilant Argent, mantled Or, a bull's head caboshed Sable at dexter and an eradicated deciduous tree Vert at sinister.
Meaning:
The village was first mentioned in a Ratzeburg register of tithe in 1128 as Colatza. The village belonged to an estate and had been part of the Principality of Ratzeburg-Mecklenburg-Strelitz. It remained an exclave of Mecklenburg until 1937. By the Greater-Hamburg-Act (Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz) it became a part of the Schleswig-Holstein Province. The bull's head is a modification of the arms of Mecklenburg. The tree is alluding to the numerous local groves. The crane and the blue colour are alluding to the local lake and a breeding ground for cranes.
Source: Municipal Roll of Arms Schleswig-Holstein Online
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 13 June 2018. The artist is Wolfgang Bentin from Kastorf.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Feb 2020
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