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Last modified: 2020-04-07 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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![[Grevesmühlen city flag]](../images/d/de-nc-gv.gif)
3:5 
image by Jörg Majewski and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2020
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Grevesmühlen was the administration seat of Nordwestmecklenburg County until 3 September 2011.
Jörg Majewski, 27 Feb 2007
It is a red-yellow-red horizontal triband with ratio of stripes 1:1:1 and centred arms fimbriated yellow.
Source: image provided per email by Klaus Günther
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Apr 2020
![[Grevesmühlen city flag]](../images/d/de-nc-gv1.gif)
3:5 image by Jörg Majewski, 27 Feb 2007
It is a blue-yellow-red horizontal tricolour with centred arms.
Source: Günther 1999, pp. 16 - 29
Jörg Majewski, 27 Feb 2007
![[Grevesmühlen other flag]](../images/d/de-nc-gv2.gif)
3:5 image by Stefan Schwoon, 6 Nov 2011
The ratio is 3:5. It is a blue over yellow over red horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is in the centre of the flag. The variant has a bull turning his head slightly to the fly.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Nov 2011
![[Grevesmühlen arms]](../images/d/de-nc-gv).gif)
Image by Jörg Majewski, 27 Feb 2007
On a red shield is a golden (=yellow) mill wheel. The centre of the gear is superimposed by a black bull's head, crowned golden, armed silver and tongued red.
Meaning:
Probably the bull's head is symbolising Mecklenburg and the Obotrite princes, the millwheel might be canting.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2011
According to Stefan Schwoon this flag was introduced shortly after German reunion in 1990 by the city council, stressing the old relationships to the former state of Mecklenburg. As there had been no entry in the roll of arms of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, this variant had to be considered as "inofficial" (deadline: 7 April 2004). The arms were granted in Oct 1897 and revised 1996.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2011
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