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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Feb 2022
It is a blue-white-blue vertical triband. The coat of arms is shifted towards the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Feb 2022
Shield parted per fess, above Gules a fess bretessed Argent charged with a bar wavy Azure, beneath Argent two connected staffs Azure one in bend and one in bend sinister, and carved at their outer edges.
Meaning:
Fess and base are taken from the arms of the Counts of Haunsberg. A relief of their arms is in the local parish church. The kin embossed local affairs in the 2nd half of the 16th century as rulers of the Mitterskirchen district (Bavarian: Hofmark). The bar wavy is a referring to the location in the valley of the Gera River.
Source: Erich Eder et alii: "Die Kommunalwappen des Landkreises Rottal-Inn und benachbarter Gebiete - Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe des Landkreises Rottal-Inn", vol 6, Pfarrkirchen 1980, p.18
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Feb 2022
Banner and arms were approved on 18 February 1976 by district governor (Regierungspräsident) of Niederbayern.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Feb 2022
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