City of Ostfildern (Germany)

Stadt Ostfildern, Kreis Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg

Last modified: 2013-06-29 by klaus-michael schneider
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City of Ostfildern

Ostfildern City Banner

Description of banner:
It is a green - white vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Stefan Schwoon spotted this banner on 18 September 2002 at the local gardening show ground.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jun 2013

Ostfildern Coat of Arms

Description of coat of arms:
The shield is quarterly divided into silver (= white) and red. The whole is superimposed by a mill wheel. Its quarters in the silver fields are green, those ones in the red fields are golden (= yellow).
Meaning:
The quarterly divided shield is taken from the arms of the former municipality of Nellingen. The millwheel is symbolizing the watermills in the Körsch valley. Its colours are representing the other parts of Ostfildern. On 1 January 1975 Nellingen auf den Fildern, Ruit auf den Fildern, Kemnat and Scharnhausen merged. On 1 January 1976 Ostfildern gained the rights of a city.
Source: Landeskundliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg

Banner and coat of arms were approved on 23 November 1976 by the county administration, published in GABl 311/1977.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jun 2013

Borough of Nellingen auf den Fildern

Nellingen Banner

Description of banner:
It is a white - red vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: Stadler 1971, p.76
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jun 2013

Nellingen Coat of Arms

Description of coat of arms:
The shield is quarterly divided into silver (= white) and red.
Meaning:
The former municipality displayed the arms of the Lords of Nellingen, who died out in 1551. Their "civil" branch played an important role in the Imperial City of Esslingen. Anselm of Nellingen in 1250 donated a church near his castle to the Monastery of St. Blasien, whose administrators (Vögte) had been the Counts of Württemberg. The first municipal arms from 1926 already contained the shield of the Nellingen kin, however in reversed order of colours. A correction was made in 1952. Nellingen was incorporated into Ostfildern on 1 January 1975.
Source: Stadler 1971, p.76

The banner was approved on 16 February 1967 by minister of interior of Baden-Württemberg, published in GABl 214/1967.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Jun 2013

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