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![[Zweibrücken city flag]](../images/d/de-rp-zw.gif)
3:5 
image by Stefan Schwoon, 2 Mar 2001
It is a red-yellow-blue horizontal tricolour with centred arms.
Source: Staack 1997
Stefan Schwoon, 2 Mar 2001
![[Zweibrücken city banner]](../images/d/de-rp-zw_.gif)
5:2 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Mar 2023
It is a red-yellow-blue vertical tricolour with centred arms.
Source: Staack 1997
Stefan Schwoon, 2 Mar 2001
Shield Or a lion rampant Gules, armed and tongued Azure, over all in centre a label Azure of three points.
Meaning:
Zweibrücken was already an important town in the 13th century, but it did not receive city rights until 1352. The oldest seal dates from about the same time. The arms show the lion as in the present arms. It is the lion of the Counts of Zweibrücken, a younger line of the Counts of Saarbrücken. In 1385 they sold the city and surrounding area to the Wittelsbach kin, but the arms did not change.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.66
Santiago Dotor, 8 Jan 2002
Flag and banner are traditional. The arms were granted in 1846 by King Ludwig I of Bayern.
Santiago Dotor, 8 Jan 2002
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