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Constituent municipalities: Balje, Freiburg a.d. Elbe
Market Town (Flecken), Krummendeich, Oederquart, Wischhafen.
Description of flag: It is a yellow over white horizontal bicolour
with the coat of arms in its centre.
Description of coat of arms: In a red shield is St.Mary, nimbed and
crowned golden, sitting on a golden chair, dressed in a silver robe, holding
child Jesus, dressed silver and nimbed golden, in her left arm and holding
a white flower with stem in her right hand.
Meaning: This was the coat of arms of former county of Kehdingen since
1397 with some minor changes. After the other municipalities had of the
former county had agreed, the coat of arms was officially adopted in 1972
with permission of the former district government of Stade.
For further information click: www.nordkehdingen.de
Source: §2 (2) of Hauptsatzung of Samtgemeinde Nordkehdingen, dated
22 August 1996, last updated on 28 February 2002.
*A "Samtgemeinde", also called "collective municipality"
is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community
in Lower Saxony.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 May 2009
Flecken Freiburg a.d. Elbe (Samtgemeinde Nordkehdingen ; Stade county;
Lower Saxony).
A „Flecken“ is a denomination, which is, as far as I know, in Northern
Germany only used in Lower Saxony. According to Dr.Ulrich March, former
headmaster and historician in Bad Bramstedt (Schleswig-Holstein), you can
find the “Flecken” already in the names of streets, then called either
“Bleek” or “Bleck”. A “Flecken” was a town with minor rights in comparison
with a city. One substantial right was to have a market. Therefore it might
be translated as market town. Today the title is probably without any importance.
To gain the title of a city a town needs at least 10,000 inhabitants, unless
the title wasn’t gained very early.
Description of flag: It is a white over red horizontal bicolour with
the coat of arms in its centre.
Description of coat of arms: In a red field is a black castle masoned
silver with a closed golden gate. The walls are topped by two silver torrets,
each having pinnacles and a triangular shaped gable. Te castle is topped
by two crossed silver keys.
Meaning: The coat of arms has a long tradition. The town was fortified
in the middle ages.
For further information click: municipal webpage
Source: §2 (2) of Hauptsatzung of Freiburg a.d. Elbe, dated 18 December 2006
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 May 2009
Municipality of Wischhafen (Samtgemeinde Nordkehdingen ; Stade county;
Lower Saxony)
Description of flag: It is a white over green horizontal bicolour with
the coat of arms in its centre.
Description of coat of arms: In a silver shield is a green hill upon
the base, superimposed by a silver fessy, wavy line. Above the hill are
three black wolf traps.
Meaning: The green hill is representing the former settlement of Altendorf.
The wavy line is representing the kin of von Drewes, that had died out.
Finally the wolf traps are representing the former settlement of Wolfsbruch,
where the last wolves in Kehdingen had been caught.
For further information click: municipal webpage
Source: §2 no.2 of Hauptsatzung of Wischhafen, dated 26 February 2007
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 May 2009
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