Klaipeda City (Klaipeda, Lithuania)

Memel

Last modified: 2004-07-31 by dov gutterman
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by Jaume Ollé

• Overview
• Previously Reported Flag
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Lithuania
• Lithuania - Subdivisions
• Memel Historical Flags
• Memel District 1920-1939

Overview

We have a report from Audrius Slapsinskas about a municipal flag as vertical yellow-red charged with the Coat of Arms. (see Previously Reported Flag). However, <www.misija.lt> report a horizontal yellow over red with Coat of Arms at canton. This is Memel District 1920-1939 flag and the image is taken from FOTW....
Klaipeda and Memel are the same city, Klaipeda being its Russian/Lithuanian name and Memel its German name.
Nevertheless, it seemd that other Audrius report was wrong (which I doubt) or Klaipeda readopted its historical flag....
Dov Gutterman, 23 July 2004

Previously Reported Flag

by Audrius Slapsinskas, 7 July 2003

The flag (two vertical bands yellow and red) and the coat of arms of Klaipeda city (Klaipeda county - Klaipedos apskritis). The flag is drawn by me according to logo of the 750th Anniversary of Klaipeda City Foundation (old version of the site of Klaipeda municipality - <www.klaipeda.lt>) and personal observation from flag show in jubilee of Mindaugas coronation 750th anniversary. The coat of arms I drew according to the picture from the book: The Heraldry of Lithuania.
Audrius Slapsinskas, 4 and 7 July 2003

Quite similar in symbolism and colours to the Memel District 1920-1939 flag. Klaipeda and Memel are the same city, Klaipeda being its Russian/Lithuanian name and Memel its German name.
Santiago Dotor and Ivan Sache, 23 July 2003

Coat of Arms

by Audrius Slapsinskas, 4 July 2003