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Flag of the department of Bas-Rhin - Image by Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 24 October 2009
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Code: 67
Region: Alsace
Traditional province: Alsace
Bordering departments: Moselle,
Haut-Rhin,
Vosges
Bordering country: Germany (Federal
States of Rhineland-Palatinate and
Baden-Württemberg)
Area: 4,755 km2
Population (2005): 1,063,000 inhabitants
Préfecture:
Strasbourg
Sous-préfectures: Haguenau,
Molsheim, Saverne, Sélestat,
Wissembourg
Subdivisions: 7 arrondissements, 44 cantons, 527 communes.
The department is named ("Lower-Rhine") after river Rhine.
Ivan Sache, 14 November 2009
As reported by Pascal Vagnat in May 2009, the flag of the Department of Bas-Rhin is hoisted over the building of the General Council at
Strasbourg and over the Castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg, located near
Sélestat.
The flag is a banner of the arms of the department, De gueules à la
barre d'argent accompagnée de deux cotices fleuronnées du même ("Gules a bend cotised fleury argent"), officially adopted on 5 May 1948. These
are the former arms of Lower-Alsace, which also appear on the flag of
Region Alsace and on the flag of the traditional Province of Alsace
(as a bend sinister).
According to Brian Timms, the arms appeared for the first time in 1262, on a seal of the Counts of Werd, who were Landgraves of Lower- Alsace in 1156, and the arms with these tinctures are found in an English Roll of the 13th century.
Ivan Sache, 24 October 2009
