Last modified: 2017-09-03 by klaus-michael schneider
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![[Schöningen city flag]](../images/d/de-he-sn.gif)
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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007
inhabitants 13,086
coat of arms confirmed on 16 October 1996
flags approved on 16 October 1996
Source: Rabbow 2003
Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007
It is a red over yellow horizontal bicolour. The coat of arms is slightly shifted to the hoist.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007
![[ municipal banner]](../images/d/de-he-sn_.gif)
8:3 image by Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007
It is a red-yellow vertical bicolour. The coat of arms is shifted to the top.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007
![[Schöningen city CoA]](../images/d/de-he-sn).gif)
image by Jörg Majewski, 30 June 2007
Shield Gules, a lion statant Or on top of a basement Argent masoned Sable, in dexter chief a 8-point star Or.
Meaning:
Schöningen gained city rights around 1320. From first main seal there are prints since 1332, displaying a lion passant between wreaths and an 8-point star in top. The 2nd seal from the 15th century already displayed the current pattern, in between the lion had been alone but in the 18th century the current pattern was restored. The tinctures were first mentioned in the Sassenchronik roll of arms in 1492. They became common in the 19th century. The lion is that one of the Welfen kin, rulers since 1180 as heirs of the Counts of Sommerschenburg. The original of the basement is in Braunschweig as part of the famous lion-monument from 1166. The star had been a 6-point star Argent at least until 1970.
Source: Stadler 1970, p.71
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Sep 2017
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