Editing Flensburg (section)

==Coat of arms==
Flensburg's coat of arms shows in gold above blue and silver waves rising to the left a six-sided red tower with a blue pointed roof, breaking out of which, one above the other, are the [[Coat of arms of Schleswig|two lions of Schleswig and Denmark]]; above is a red shield with the silver Holsatian nettle leaf on it. The town's flag is blue, overlaid with the coat of arms in colour.

The lions symbolize Schleswig, and the nettle leaf Holstein, thus expressing the town's unity with these two historic lands. The tower recalls Flensburg's old town rights and the old castle that was the town's namesake (''Burg'' means "castle"). The waves refer to the town's position on the Flensburg Fjord.

The coat of arms was granted the town by [[Wilhelm II of Germany|King Wilhelm II of Prussia]] in 1901, and once again in modified, newly approved form on 19 January 1937 by Schleswig-Holstein's High President (''Oberpräsident'').