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Last modified: 2017-11-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jan 2012
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Description of current flag:
The flag's ratio is 3:5. It is a yellow over red over yellow horizontal triband with ratio 1:4:1. The coat of arms is in the red stripe and shifted to the hoist.
Source: §2(2) of Hauptsatzung of the city of Kerpen, version 28 October 1999, updated 23 November 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jan 2012
![[Kerpen banner]](../images/d/de-bm_kp.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jan 2012
Description of banner:
It is a yellow - red - yellow vertical triband with ratio 1:4:1. The coat of arms is in the red stripe and shifted to the top.
Source: §2(2) of Hauptsatzung of the city of Kerpen, version 28 October 1999, updated 23 November 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jan 2012
Description of coat of arms:
The shield is divided per pale, the dexter half is divided per fess. Above right in a black field is a golden (=yellow), rampant lion, armed and tongued red. Below in a silver (= white) field is a red, double queued, rampant lion, crowned golden. Left is a red tower in a golden (= yellow) field.
Meaning:
According to source the tower reminds at a medieval imperial castle. The lions are taken from the arms of Brabant(above) and Limburg(below). Both appeared already in a lay judges' seal from 1306. Kerpen belonged to Brabant since the end of the 13th century, together with Lommersum, which had been a possession of Limburg before.
Sources: Stadler 1972, p.59 and §2(1) of Hauptsatzung of the city of Kerpen, version 28 October 1999, updated 23 November 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jan 2012
The coat of arms was approved by Oberpräsident of Prussian Rhineprovince in 1938.
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