City of Eisenhüttenstadt (Oder-Spree County, Brandenburg, Germany)

Stadt Eisenhüttenstadt, formerly Stalinstadt 1953-1961

Last modified: 2003-01-18 by santiago dotor
Keywords: brandenburg | eisenhüttenstadt | stadt eisenhüttenstadt | stalinstadt | oder-spree county | dove (blue) | plant: industrial |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

3:5
by Stefan Schwoon
Flag adopted 1987

• Description

See also:

• Oder-Spree County (Landkreis Oder-Spree, Brandenburg, Germany)
• County and Municipal Flags (Brandenburg, Germany)
• Brandenburg (Germany)
• Germany

Eisenhüttenstadt is a city of slightly less than 50,000 inhabitants in Oder-Spree County. Its history is somewhat special. It was founded in 1951 as a settlement for the workers of a newly created steel plant. It was named Stalinstadt in 1953 and Eisenhüttenstadt in 1961, the name refering to the factory ('iron hut city'). The flag is yellow with a green bordure and golden fringes with the symbols of the arms. These show a stylised peace dove, a tall housing building and a metallurgic plant. It was adopted in 1987. Source: Günther 1995 (Erwin Günther, Ostdeutsche Stadtflaggen (1): Land Brandenburg, in Der Flaggenkurier, no. 1, 1995).

Stefan Schwoon, 7 April 2001

My humble proposal for a better flag of Eisenhüttenstadt would be a banner of arms made up of simply a field of vair, since the German for vair is Eisenhütfeh (cf. François Velde's Heraldica website).

Santiago Dotor, 9 April 2001

Flags of the World is produced and maintained by an Editorial Staff of unpaid volunteers and the contents of these pages are offered freely to the Internet community.
This Fotw.net mirror is sponsored by MrFlag.com (for flag and bunting ). Web design and eCommerce for MrFlag.com by Wired Media .