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Olpe County (Germany)

Kreis Olpe, Northrhine-Westphalia

Last modified: 2020-05-22 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Olpe county flag] 3:5  image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Nov 2007 See also:

Olpe County

Olpe County Flag

It is a red-white-red horizontal triband, proportioned 1:3:1 with arms shifted towards the hoist.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.314
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Nov 2007

Olpe County Banner

[Olpe county banner] 3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Nov 2007

It is a red-white-red vertical triband, proportioned 1:3:1; the coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: Veddeler 2003, p.314
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Nov 2007

Olpe County Flag

[Olpe county bicolour] 3:5  image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 May 2020

It was a red-white vertical bicolour with centred arms.
Source: phone call from couty administration to Falko Schmidt on 18 October 1999
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 May 2020

Olpe County Coat of Arms

Shield parted pale, at dexter Or two bars Gules, at sinister Argent parted by a cross Sable.
Meaning:
The city of Olpe was one of the main cities in the Archbishopric of Köln, and a large part of the county belonged to archbishopric. The cross in the right half of the arms is the cross of Köln. The left half shows the arms of the Lords of Fürstenberg, who ruled as reeves of the archbishops several territories in the present county. They also founded the large Schnellenberg Castle in the county.
Sources: Stadler 1972, p.76 and Ralf Hartemink's webpage.

Jarig Bakker, 11 Nov 2007


Flag and banner were approved on 10 January 1955 and the arms were approved on 12 October 1949 by Minister of Interior of Nordrhein-Westfalen. The vertical bicolour was adopted on 28 November 1994 according to the local Hauptsatzung but probably never approved officially.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 May 2020

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