Municipality of Egestorf (Samtgemeinde* Hanstedt / Harburg county
/ Lower Saxony).
Its ratio is 3:5. It's a yellow over white horizontal bicolour superimposed
by the coat of arms in the centre of the flag.
Description of coat of arms: In a red shield is a silver (=white) church
with a separated bell-tower on the chief and five golden (=yellow) ears
of grain on the base.
Meaning: It's a picture of the old St.Stephens (=Stephanus) church
in Egestorf.
The grain symbolizes the 5 village which form the municipality. They
are Egestorf, Sahrendorf, Schätzendorf , Döhle and Evendorf. The villages
were united on 1 July 1972. Sahrendorf and Schätzendorf merged already
in 1928.
Source: The image of the flag was made according to Hauptstaatsarchiv
Hannover, where the flag was submitted on 19 March 1984, so described in
http://kommunalflaggen.de/. The
information about the coat of arms was taken from "Samtgemeinde Hanstedt
Bürgerinformationen 2007/2008" p.30.
*A "Samtgemeinde", also called "collective municipality"
is a combination of several municipalities to an administrative community
in Lower Saxony.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2007
![[Egestorf municipality]](../images/d/de-wl-eg.gif)
3:5 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 Apr 2007
