City of Nideggen (Germany)

Stadt Nideggen, Kreis Düren, Northrhine-Westphalia

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• City of Nideggen Coat of arms

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City of Nideggen Banner
Stadt Nideggen

Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Aug 2011

Description of banner: It is a vertical 5-stripes banner divided by alternating black and yellow stripes of equal width. The emblems of the shield are placed onto a yellow squarish bannerhead.
Source: §2(2) of Hauptsatzung of the city of Nideggen, version 10 July 1996
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Aug 2011

City of Nideggen Coat of Arms
Stadt Nideggen

Image from Heraldry of the World, 22 September 2011

Description of coat of arms: In a golden (=yellow) shield is a black, rampant lion armed and tongued red and holding a blue arrow in his right back paw.
Meaning: According to source Nideggen gained city rights in 1313 from count Gerhard I of Jülich. The oldest seal shows the arms of the counts of Jüülich hanging on a hook. The present combination of the lion of Jülich and the arrow dates from the 16th century. Inbetween there had been arms showing the lion in a green field without arrow. The arrow, the local distinguishing mark was added again in 1961 and then also the old tinctures were reestablished.
Source: Stadler 1972, p.73
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Aug 2011

Banner and coat of arms were approved by Regierungspräsident Köln on 9 November1976.