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Last modified: 2019-12-12 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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![[Herzberg upon Elster city flag]](../images/d/de-ee-hz.gif)
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image by Stefan Schwoon, 9 Apr 2001
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It is a white-green-yellow horizontal tricolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Stefan Schwoon, 9 Apr 2001
![[Herzberg upon Elster city flag banner]](../images/d/de-ee-hz_.gif)
image by Stefan Schwoon, 9 Apr 2001 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2019
It is a white-green-yellow vertical tricolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2019
Shield Argent, a stag passant Gules on top of a triplemount Vert, issuant from base.
Meaning:
The arms are canting, as the first name of the settlement had been Hirschberg (= mountain of the stags).The colours of the flag, white-green-yellow, are not derived from the arms. Possibly white and green are for Saxony to which the city belonged until 1815, and green and yellow for the Fläming region.
Sources: Günther 1995 (Erwin Günther, Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (1): Land Brandenburg, in Der Flaggenkurier, no. 1, 1995) and German WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2019 and Stefan Schwoon, 9 Apr 2001
The arms were approved on 19 January 1993.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2019
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