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![[Dornbirn]](../images/a/at-v-drb.gif) [5] |
![[Dornbirn]](../images/a/at-v-drb3.gif) [6] |
![[Dornbirn]](../images/a/at-v-drb4.gif) [7] |
![[Dornbirn, table flag]](../images/a/at-v-drb2.gif) [8] |
| by M. Schmöger, 9 August 2005 |
by M. Schmöger, 26 October 2009 |
by M. Schmöger, 26 October 2009 |
by M. Schmöger, 6 November 2007 |
| Name of municipality: | Dornbirn |
| Status: | Stadtgemeinde (town) |
| Land (state): | Vorarlberg |
| Bezirk (district): | Dornbirn |
| Description of arms (German): | In einem ovalen, roten, von einem silbernen Querbalken durchzogenen Schilde ein grüner befruchteter Birnbaum, aus grünem Boden erwachsend. [1] [2] [3] |
| Blazoning of arms (English): | Gules, a fess Argent, issuant from a mount Vert, a pear-tree Vert, fructed Or. |
| Adoption date of arms: | 1 February 1929 (based on the historical arms, originally granted 23 September 1655) |
| Description of flag: | two stripes, red-white, with coat-of-arms [4] [5]; colours (flag) are not mentioned in [2] |
| Adoption date of flag: | ? |
| Sources: | [1] [brm75] [2] [bzp73] [3] [stl04] [4] list of Austrian municipal colours, by Jan Miller, 18 February 1965/ 16 April 1965/ 24 June 1965 (archive Arnold Rabbow) [5] photos at http://www.ris.at//company/standesbeamte/gallerie/PC020388gr.JPG [6] photo by Stefan Schwoon, 14 July 2007 [7] photo in Österreichische Bürgermeister-Zeitung 1983: 10: p.74 [8] http://dornbirn.at/cup/Z100/pictures/29.jpg (broken link) |
M. Schmöger, 9 August 2005 / 6 November 2007 / 26 October 2009 / 29 October 2009
Earlier versions of the flag either showed seven stripes of red and
white, with the arms (1954); or two stripes, as currently, but in a very
long flag (10:1) (1958).
Source: Matt, W, Platzgummer, H & Platzgummer, H (2002) Geschichte der Stadt Dornbirn: Ortsansichten und Lebenswelten in historischen
Fotografien. Dornbirn (Stadt Dornbirn).
M. Schmöger, 9 August 2005
![[Dornbirn, 1954 version]](../images/a/at-v-drb54.gif)
![[Dornbirn, 1958 version]](../images/a/at-v-drb58.gif)
both by M. Schmöger, 9 August 2005
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