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![[Flag of La Chaux-de-Fonds]](../images/c/ch-ne016.gif)
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by Pascal Gross
Tierced per fess, Azure three Mullets of Five Argent in fess, Argent
a Hive Or surrounded by seven Bees of the same, and chequy [of 7x3] Argent and Azure.
Željko Heimer, 27 May 2000
I saw in loco in La Chaux-de-Fonds and on stickers and souvenir flags
I bought there, the bottom area is made up of 3x7 squares, thus occupying not
1/3 of the flag's height (and area) but 3/7. Moreover, on real flags
the beehive has no "door" and looks quite stylized.
António Martins, 28 May 2000
I received a colour picture from a lady working for La Chaux-de-Fonds
municipal archives showing the official flag in which the 3 stripes are of equal
height with 3x7 rectangles on the bottom stripe. I doubted how to draw this flag
and I phoned La Chaux-de-Fonds to be as accurate as possible and they kindly
sent me this photograph. Maybe there are several ways to draw the flag, but I
think that 3 equal stripes is the most elegant.
Pascal Gross, 29 May 2000
The livery colours of La Chaux-de-Fonds are blue-white-gold, the latter being remarkably
orangeish.
António Martins, 23 April 2001
![[Flag of La Chaux-de-Fonds]](../images/c/ch-ne016a.gif)
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by ND
Tierced in pale Azure Argent and Or.
Christopher Southworth
In travel in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Canton of Neuchâtel, I
have never seen the flag presented here. Instead, I have seen a triband flag in four different places.
ND, 11 August 2008
The three colours obviously are those appearing in the arms, but only two of
those are used in flags that incorporate the arms. Is this difference common or
is this an exception?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 August 2008
I was in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1991 and again in 1996, for a week each time,
and reported that the square banner of arms is indeed in use, albeit seldom, and
that Knatterfahnen in the livery colors (vertical tricolors of blue,
white and dark yellow) are a very common sight. That is surely what ND saw.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 August 2008
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