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image by Ingo Becker, 16 August 2010
Weyhe is a community in Lower Saxony, Germany, part of the administrative
district of Diepholz, bordering Bremen in the north, with slightly over 30,000
inhabitants and an area of about 60 kmē. Weyhe was created in 1974 by fusion of
three former communities Kirchweyhe, Leeste, Sudweyhe) on the occasion of a
large amalgamation of communities in Lower Saxony in the seventies of the last
century.
The coat of arms was established in 1979. It goes back to that
one of a family von Weyhe, who lived here in earlier days. The website of the
community says, that the colours of the coat of arms are red and silver. The
lion has a red tongue and golden teeth and claws. The three red stripes
commemorate the three former communities.
Since 1986 there is also a flag
of two equal stripes of red over white (heraldic "silver") and a large coat of arms in the centre.
Many of those flags fly on private posts. But - contrary to the above
description - those flags show the lion's teeth and claws in white instead of
gold. The main bylaw of Weyhe says in §2 (2):
"Die Farben der Flagge sind rot und silber; sie zeigt das Gemeindewappen."
("The colours of the flag are red and silver. It shows the municipal arms."
Information from the town hall, in existence since 1986. The real flag should
show only one shade of red.
Ingo Becker, 16 August 2010, 10 February
2011