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Civil flag 1751–present; state flag introduced in 1897, confirmed in 1952: Flag of Hamburg [1] Hesse: 1949–present: Flag of Hesse: Lower Saxony: 1951–present: Flag of Lower Saxony [1] Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania: 1991–present: Flag of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania: North Rhine-Westphalia: 1953–present: Flag of North Rhine ...
It was readopted 1945 when Saxony became a state again, and abolished 1952 under governing reforms of the German Democratic Republic. When Germany was reunited, Saxony became a state again, and so the flag was finally officially readopted in 1991, having been a much used symbol during the demonstrations in the German Democratic Republic in 1989/90.
The flag with the swastika and white disc centered was used throughout (1920–1945) as the NSDAP flag (Parteiflagge). [2] Between 1933 and 1935, it was used as the mandotary party flag with the national black-white-red horizontal tricolour last used (up to 1918) by the German Empire .
1620 Taler - John George I. The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: Kurfürstentum Sachsen or Kursachsen), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 to 1806 initially centred on Wittenberg that came to include areas around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz.
The Paragraph 4 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the Free State of Saxony, guaranties the flag the equality alongside the flag of Saxony. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Second, the flag is also employed by the Landsmannschaft Schlesien – Nieder- und Oberschlesien e. V. (Homeland Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia) a group representing the ...
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The Landtag of Saxony state parliament has passed on 25 October 1991 the following law: § 1 (1) The lesser coat-of-arms of the Free State of Saxony shows an escutcheon bendy of nine pieces black and gold, a green rue-crown bendwise. (2) A greater coat-of-arms of the Free State of Saxony can be determined by a special law.
Black and yellow were the colors of the Prussian Province of Saxony and the pre-1952 State of Saxony-Anhalt, but on 29 January 1991 the traditional order of the colors was reversed to distinguish the flag from the black-over-yellow bi-color of Baden-Württemberg. This was then enshrined in the state constitution of 17 July 1992, where Article 1 ...