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![[Kröpelin flag]](../images/d/de-gu-kp.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jan 2012
Description of current flag:
The flag's ratio is 3:5. It is a blue - white - blue vertical triband with ratio 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the central stripe.
Source: [szh11], p.233
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jan 2012
Description of coat of arms:
In a blue field is a cripple without legs, dressed in a silver (=white) coat, wearing a golden (= yellow) and creeping by golden (= yellow) amputation appliances. The cripple is topped by a sinister bendy golden inescutcheon, showing a black bull's head crowned golden (= yellow) and armed silver (=white).
Meaning:
The cripple is canting. The village gained city rights in 1240 from Heinrich Borwin III, Lord of Rostock. The city became part of the Lordship Mecklenburg in 1323 and of the Duchy of Mecklenburg in 1348. This is symbolized by the inescutcheon.
Source: [szh11], p.233
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Jan 2012
Flag and coat of arms were approved by minister of interior of Mecklenburg-Westpomerania on 8 June 1999, published in the roll of arms of Mecklenburg-Westpomerania as no. 0066.
