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![[Nordhorn city plain flag]](../images/d/de-gb-no0.gif)
2:3
image by Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007
It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour
Source: Hanns Fettweis: "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989.
Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007
![[Nordhorn city plain banner]](../images/d/de-gb-no0_.gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007
It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour
Source: Hanns Fettweis: "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989.
Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007
![[Nordhorn city flag w/ CoA]](../images/d/de-gb-no.gif)
2:3 image by Jörg Majewski and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017
It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: Hanns Fettweis: "Die Wappen der Städte, Gemeinden und Altkreise des Emslandes", 1989.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017
![[Nordhorn banner w/ CoA]](../images/d/de-gb-no_.gif)
image by Jörg Majewski and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017
It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour with arms, probably shifted to the top.
Source: Stadler 1970, p.62
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017
![[Nordhorn city plain flag 1891]](../images/d/de-gb-no891.gif)
1:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Nov 2011
The ratio is given as 1:2. It was a red over yellow horizontal bicolour. The information is confirmed by Stadler 1970, p.62 as banner.
Source:H.Ahrens "Hannoversche Landschafts-und Städtewappen", 1891, plate XX
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 23 Nov 2011
![[Nordhorn city coat of arms]](../images/d/de-gb-no).gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 26 Nov 2007
Shield Gules, a hunting horn Or surrounded by 13 balls Or.
Meaning:
Nordhorn had been a market town for for a long time and gained city rights in 1379 by Count Bernd of Bentheim. Already the first city seal from the 15th century displayed the current pattern with 17 complete and two half balls, as so called "Bentheim Pennies" often considered to be bezants. The balls are taken from the arms of the Bentheim kin. The horn is a canting element. In the 17th century a new seal displayed the shield topped by a coronet and with two additional lions as supporters. Otto Hupp designed the current pattern, reduced however the number of balls to 13, in order to distinguish the arms from those of the counts.
The arms were officially confirmed in 1940.
Source: Stadler 1970, p.62
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Aug 2017
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