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The Prussian national and merchant flag was originally a simple black-white-black flag issued on May 22, 1818, but this was replaced on March 12, 1823, with a new flag. The revised one (3:5) was parted black, white, and black (1:4:1), showing in the white stripe the eagle with a blue orb bound in gold and a scepter ending in another eagle.
Civil flag of Prussia A bicolour design – white and black, split horizontally. 1750–1801 Second flag of the Kingdom in Prussia and first flag of the Kingdom of Prussia: A black eagle holding a sword and rod on a white field, a crown on top 1801–1803 Second flag of the Kingdom of Prussia 1803–1892 Third flag of the Kingdom of Prussia
The main coat of arms of Prussia, as well as the flag of Prussia, depicted a black eagle on a white background. The black and white national colours were already used by the Teutonic Knights and by the Hohenzollern dynasty. The Teutonic Order wore a white coat embroidered with a black cross with gold insert and black imperial eagle.
The Convention of Tauroggen armistice, signed by Diebitsch and Yorck without the consent of their king, declared the Prussian corps "neutral". The news was received with the wildest enthusiasm, but the Prussian Court dared not yet throw off the mask, and an order was despatched suspending Yorck from his command pending a court-martial.
The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. [citation needed] This "Prussian Eagle" remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
Since the flag is historic (i.e. not longer used by the authorities), and to the fact that this depiction is my individual interpretation of the flag description, the following Licenses apply: The copyright holder of this file, David Liuzzo , allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed.
Prussian nationalism arose as a result of the state-building by the Hohenzollern dynasty that was initiated with the merger of Brandenburg with East Prussia in the 16th century followed later by the incorporation of West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, and large portions of the Rhineland and Westphalia by the 19th century. [1]
Therefore, the North German and eventually Imperial German flags prominently featured the Prussian colours (black and white) as well as symbols like the Prussian eagle and the Iron Cross. And while seafaring was the traditional domain of the Hanse in Germany, virtually all of the 19th century German coastline (including the North Sea coast) and ...