A yellow rose on red: the flag of Trondheim does not copy its coat of arms, like most Norwegian ones, but a medieval flower of the city.
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CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with an 8:11 ratio, red, with a large yellow rose in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
The city council approved it in 1989
In 2020 Trondheim merged with the neighbouring municipality of Klæbu
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Trondheim is red with a large yellow rose in the centre. It is a rarity in Norway: most municipalities in the country copy their coat of arms onto the flag, and Trondheim instead chose a flower the city has used since the Middle Ages.
Trondheim has no modern coat of arms but an old seal, too complicated to put onto cloth. So when it wanted a flag it looked for another symbol: the rose of Trondheim, the official flower of the city.
The painter and teacher Arne E. Holm drew the version for the flag. The city council approved it in 1989, and a royal resolution confirmed it on 26 May of that year.
It has not changed since 1989. In 2020 Trondheim merged with the neighbouring municipality of Klæbu, and the symbols stayed the same.
The whole meaning is in the flower.
Holm’s drawing is inspired by the Tudor rose, the emblem of the kings of England. Trondheim’s has eight petals, an even number that does not occur in real wild roses.
In the 18th century the rose replaced three heads that appeared on the official seal of the city. Before that it was already used by the cathedral chapter, the citizens’ militia and guilds such as the bakers’ and the goldsmiths’.
In 1997 the city celebrated its thousand years with a special flag, red with a yellow logo and the text ‘TRONDHEIM 997 - 1997’.
Roman Mars, of the show ‘99% Invisible’, has cited it as an example of a well-designed city flag. Unlike that of Oslo, it carries no coat of arms or letters.
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Text based on the article “Flag of Trondheim (Wikipedia en inglés)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Original drawing by Arne E. Holm. Digital vector file by Gutten på Hemsen, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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