Gamprin (Liechtenstein)

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• Description of the flags
  • Vertical flag, simple stripes
  • Vertical flag, stripes and arms
• Banner of the arms

• Subnational flags of Liechstenstein
• Liechtenstein

Description of the flags

• Flag description: three stripes, blue-yellow-blue (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73].)
• Flags actually used:
  • vertical flag, simple stripes
  • square flag, banner-of-arms
  • vertical flag, stripes with banner-of-arms in the head

The flag has three stripes blue-yellow-blue, of equal width. So the flags of Balzers and of Gamprin are identical. The official texts for the communes say that they can also use their coats of arms to make flags (banners of the arms). (Sources: [kra82] and the Decree of H.R.H., the Reigning Prince, granting a coat of arms and a flag to the commune of Gamprin, of the 30th April 1958.)
Pascal Vagnat, 4 April 1999

Banner of the arms

image by M. Schmöger

• Arms description (German):
  • Blauer Schild schräglinks geteilt durch das Wellenband des Rheins, beseitet von zwei silbernen Rosen mit goldenen Butzen und goldenen Kelchblättern (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85].)
  • In Blau ein goldener Schrägrechtsfluss, begleitet von zwei silbernen Rosen mit goldenen Butzen und Kelchblättern (Sources: [jsu73].)
• Arms blazoning (English): Azure, a bend wavy Or between two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or.
• Arms granted: 30 April 1958 (by Francis Joseph II, the reigning prince) (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73].)
• Reasons for the arms: Roses from the arms of the knights von Limbach, bend for the situation at the Rhine (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85])

The arms are azure with a golden diagonal wavy strip, and a silver and gold rose in each azure field. The golden strip symbolises the site of Gamprin on the Rhine river. The two roses are reminders of the knights of Limpach who owned land in Bendern and on the Eschnerberg, land which was given by Roger of Limpach to the cathedral of Coire in 1194. The arms of Gamprin were adopted on 3 April, 1958.
Pascal Vagnat, 21 November 1995

Square flag, banner-of-arms. Source for this flag design: Liechtenstein 1978–1988 — Bilder, Texte und Dokumente. Verlag der Fürstlichen Regierung, Vaduz 1988: p. 274.
M. Schmöger, 14 September 2009