Municipal Flag - Oberdorf, BL, Switzerland
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N 47° 23.587 E 007° 44.934
32T E 405584 N 5249610
The municipal flag of Oberdorf at the main street.
Waymark Code: WMQ05X
Location: Basel Landschaft, Switzerland
Date Posted: 11/21/2015
Views: 5
"Per bend sinistre Argent and Azure, overall a Key sinister palewise counterchanged." (Flags of the World)
The flag of Oberdorf is a picture of the founding history of the town, althoug it was only introduced in 1939. The key of St. Peter stands for the patron saint of the church of Onoldswil, a medieval village that was destroyed in a landslide in 1295. The diagonal division stands for this landslide and the division of the southernmost and northernmost village parts that survived the disaster and developed into Oberdorf ("Uptown") and Niederdorf ("Downtown"). Inside the key there is an "O" for Oberdorf. Neighboring Niederdorf has a very similar flag, just in red with an "N" inside the key.
I found this flag in the town center at the main street and railway line.
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