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Flags of German states. A map of Germany, showing all the State flags and coat of arms. All German states have a Landesflagge (flag of the state, sometimes known as a civil flag), that may be used by anyone. Some states have another variant, often showing the state coat of arms, called the Dienstflagge (service flag or government flag ...
The absence of gold from the flag also made it clear that this German state did not include the "black and gold" monarchy of Austria. In the Franco-Prussian War, the remaining southern German states allied with the North German Confederation, leading to the unification of Germany. A new constitution of 1871 gave the federal state the new name ...
State flag (Staatsflagge) 1959–1990 Merchant flag (Handelsflagge) 1973–1990. Tricolour of black, red, and yellow (same as West German colours), but bears the coat of arms of East Germany, consisting of a compass and a hammer encircled with rye. 1963–1990. Hanging state flag (Bannerflagge) 1955–1973.
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states").
Berlin. A tricolor of red-white-red, defaced with an emblem. The state flag of Berlin, Germany has three stripes of red-white-red, the two outer stripes each occupying a fifth of its height, the middle the remaining three-fifths. It is emblazoned with a bear on the civil flag, while it bears the coat of arms of Berlin on the state flag.
Free State of Saxony. A bicolor of white over green. The civil flag with the addition of the coat of arms. Both the civil and state flag of the German state of Saxony feature a bicolour of white over green, similar to the Austrian province of Styria although they are historically not related to each other. The state flag is similar to the civil ...
The People's State of Bavaria was a short-lived socialist state in Bavaria from 1918 to 1919. 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic: The Bavarian or Munich Soviet Republic was a short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German Revolution of 1918–19. 1919–1933 Free State of Bavaria: Bavarian state in the Weimar Republic. 1933–1945
Black, Red, and Gold barrier cord at the German Bundestag parliament. The national colours of the Federal Republic of Germany are officially black, red, and gold, [1] defined with the adoption of the West German flag as a tricolour with these colours in 1949. [2] Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany from 1949 to 1990, and both ...