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Söhrewald Municipality (Germany)

Gemeinde Söhrewald, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Hesse

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[Söhrewald municipal banner] 5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 16 Nov 2006
in use since 2001 See also:

Söhrewald Municipality

Banner:
It is a red-white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
administration seat: Wellerode
inhabitants: 5,221
Kassel County
Kassel District , state Hesse
municipality formed on 1 December 1970 by merger of 3 villages
banner in use since 2001
details based on the presentations of Klaus Günther with kind permission
The municipality flags are shown mostly in banner form in Hesse.
Jörg Majewski, 16 Nov 2006


Coat of Arms

Shield Gules, an antler Argent, each of its four points ending in a fleur-de-lis of the same.
Meaning:
Wellerode was the 3rd rural municipality (Landgemeinde) in Hesse, which was entitled to use a proper coat of arms. On occasion of the 600-years festival in 1951 this was announced in the Staaatsanzeiger of Hesse, an official journal, on 8 January 1951. The arms were introduced to the citizens on the festival in the summer of 1951. These arms were overtaken on 18 October 1972 by a resolution on 18 October 1972 of the local council of Söhrewald, which had meanwhile been established in 1971, and afterwards approved and published on 31 January 1973 by Minister of Interior of Hesse. The arms are based on the family arms of the local von-Elben kin. They are known from a seal and a deed from 1351, in which Wellerode is mentioned for the first time.
Source: German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 1 June 2017


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