Last modified: 2020-04-28 by 
klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: grabow(subcounty) | grabow | karstaedt | muchow | crescent | mural crown | stars(3) | bull(passant) | fly | scythe(blade) |
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![[Grabow city flag]](../images/d/de-pc-06-gw.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 July 2009
The subcounty has no proper symbols
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Apr 2020
The following municipalities have no proper flags: Balow, Brunow, Dambeck, Eldena, Gorlosen, Kremmin, Milow, Möllenbeck, Prislich and Zierzow.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Apr 2020
It is s a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband with ratio of stripes 1:2:1. The arms are in the centre of the yellow stripe.
Source: I spotted this flag on 19 July 2007 in Hamburg-Moorfleet, hoisted upon a small vessel named "IRENE", which was registered in Grabow.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 July 2009
![[Grabow coat of arms]](../images/d/de-pc-06-gw).gif)
image located by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 July 2009
Shield Azure, a waning crescent Or accompanied at sinister by three 6-point stars of the same in triangle. The shield is crested by a mural crown Gules with three visible towers and port Or.
Meaning:
Grabow had been mentioned as a city first in 1275. A dade, already issued in 1252 by the Counts of Dannenberg as vassals of the Margraves of Brandenburg, which pretended the grant of city rights, later turned out to be a forgery. A city seal with prints since 1371 displayed St. George, the local patron saint, recognisable by his shield charged with a cross (fitchy), standing on a lying crowned male. This type prevailed until the 16th century. It was replaced by another seal displaying a big star over a crescent recumbent. Since 1858 the city used the current pattern, the so called lunar arms, but with a different shield. It was based on a city seal from 1667. These arms were replaced between 1940 and 1946 by another coat of arms, displaying St. George in clad armour with the dragon and a golden swastika on his lance pennant. In 1946 the mayor of the city applied for new arms, again displaying on blue a silver crescent with stars of the same with an additional mural crown, then having a silver gate. That type of mural crown is a typical element of Russian city heraldry. Thus it had been refused by the Mecklenburg Main Archive, but the Soviet Military Government had already given an approval and thus the pattern was confirmed by the authorities of Mecklenburg on 18 July 1946. In 1991 the tinctures of crescent and stars were changed to golden.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.123-125
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
The flag was approved 17 March 1999 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The arms were granted on 10 April 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The last modification was approved on 20 June 1991 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Flag and last arms were published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.4.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
![[Karstädt municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pc-06-ks.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
It is a red-yellow-red vertical triband with ratio of stripes approx. 1:2:1. The coat of arms is in the centre of the yellow stripe.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.127-128
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
Shield Gules, a bull passant Or, in chief a waning crescent Or.
Meaning:
The bull is symbolising agriculture as main business line. The crescent is taken from the city arms of Grabow, as the predecessors of Karstädt historically belonged to that city, before they were united as an independent municipality in 1952.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.127-128
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
The flag was approved on 20 April 1998 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The arms were granted on 10 April 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Both were published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.160.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
![[Muchow municipal flag]](../images/d/de-pc-06-mc.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
It is a yellow-red-yellow vertical triband with ratio of stripes 1:2:1. The coat of arms is in the centre of the red stripe.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.136-137
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
Shield Or, two scythe blades Azure in saltire, in chief a fly Gules winged Or.
Meaning:
The fly (Slavic: mucha) is a canting element. The scythe blades are alluding to the local production of those tools and to agriculture as main business lines.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, pp.136-137
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
Flag and arms were approved on 13 February 2001 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.236.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Apr 2020
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