Last modified: 2020-04-28 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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![[Waren a.d. Müritz city flag]](../images/d/de-mt-wm.gif)
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image by Stefan Schwoon, 24 Jan 2012
It is a blue-yellow-red horizontal tricolour with centred arms.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.329
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2012
Shield Or; on a mount issuant Vert, flanked by waves Azure, a castle Gules, consisting of an embattled wall masoned Sable and two embattled towers with cone roofs, between the towers a demi-bull Sable, crowned Or and armed Argent, topped by an impending helmet Azure crested by two circles of peacock feathers proper.
Meaning:
The coat of arms is based upon a city seal with prints from 1344. Waves and hill are representing the landscape on the shores of Lake Müritz. The castle is symbolising a fortified market town. The demi-bull is a differentiation of the arms of the Princes of Rostock and alluding to Prince Borwin II of Rostock, who granted city rights to the market town around 1225. A helmet with peacock feathers is the crest of the arms of the Lords of Werle. Waren had been the residence of the Werle-Waren branch between 1347 and 1425.
Source: Hans-Heinz Schütt:"Auf Schild und Flagge" , Schwerin 2011, p.329
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Jan 2012 /28 Apr 2020
The flag was approved on 27 September 1993 by Minister of Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The arms were granted on 10 April 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Both were published in the Municipal Roll of Arms Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as no.44.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Apr 2020
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