Ottweiler City (Germany)

Stadt Ottweiler ,Landkreis Neunkirchen an der Saar, Saarland

Last modified: 2020-03-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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Ottweiler City

Ottweiler City Flag

It is a blue-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: information provided by phone from Mr. Ralf Hoffmann from the Ottweiler Central Services Department
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2020

Ottweiler City Banner

It is a blue-white vertical bicolour with arms shifted to the top.
Source: information provided by phone from Mr. Ralf Hoffmann from the Ottweiler Central Services Department
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2020

Ottweiler City Coat of Arms

French shield Azure, a heraldic rose Argent (barbed and seeded of the same), crested by a brick red mural crown with three towers.
Meaning:
The settlement beneath a castle from 1393 was called a city since 1444, but gained the city rights in fact not before 1550. It is probably a symbol of a court, like e.g. in Koblenz (1282) and the common seal of Saarbücken and St. Johann (1462). In 1544 Ottweiler became a county and since 1574 seat of the branch line Nassau-Ottweiler. After 1816 seals displayed just the eagle of Prussia.
Source: Stadler 1966, p.75
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2020

The current arms with mural crown were granted around 1900 by Emperor Wilhelm II as King of Prussia.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Mar 2020

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