Last modified: 2023-04-08 by 
klaus-michael schneider
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image by Jörg Majewski, 1 June 2010
unofficial flag
It is a red-white horizontal bicolour with centred arms.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 1 June 2010
![[Kaiserslautern County banner]](../images/d/de-kl_.gif)
5:2 image by Jörg Majewski, 1 June 2010
It is a red-white vertical bicolour with arms shifted to top.
Source: this online catalogue
Jörg Majewski, 1 June 2010
Shield Sable parted by a pale Argent fimbriated Gules and charged with a fish haurient Azure; at dexter a lion rampant Or crowned, armed and tongued Gules, at sinister five balls Argent in quincunx; chief Or charged with an eagle issuant Sable, armed and tongued Gules.
Meaning:
The Palatine lion and the balls in quincunx are taken from the arms of the Palatine Electors and the Barons of Sickingen. The families ruled more than 90% of the current county. The pale basically displays the city arms of Kaiserslautern. The differentiation of the Imperial Eagle is alluding to a royal estate, which existed in times of the Salian dynasty and the Hohenstaufen dynasty which had been located in an imperial forest surrounding the city.
Source: Stadler 1964, p.49
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Apr 2023
Flag and banner are used without approval. The arms were approved on 14 December 1969 by Minister of Interior of Rheinland-Pfalz.
Jörg Majewski, 1 June 2010
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