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Ohrdruf City (Germany)

Stadt Ohrdruf, Landkreis Gotha, Thuringia

Last modified: 2019-12-16 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Ohrdruf city flag] 3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 17 Dec 2019 See also:

Ohrdruf City

Ohrdruf Flag

It is a blue-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
, 17 Dec 2019

Ohrdruf Banner

[Ohrdruf city banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 17 Dec 2019

It is a blue-white vertical bicolour. The arms are shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2019

Ohrdruf Coat of Arms

Shield Azure, issuant from base an angel, winged and dressed Argent, nimbed and girded Or, holding a pair of scales Or in his left hand and a sword Argent hilted Or in bend sinister in his right hand.
Meaning:
The angel is St. Michael, recognisable by his attributes sword and scales. The arms are based on the first seals displaying the angel, which appeared after the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Saint Boniface began his proselytisation of Thuringia in 724, when he founded a hermitage, dedicated to St.Michael, near the current city of Ohrdruf.
Source: Bensing et alii 1984, p.334
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Dec 2019

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