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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 ...
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The flag of the Kingdom of Saxony (1815–1918), the Free State of Saxony (Weimar Republic (1918–1925), and reunified Germany (since 1991) War flag with cannons, bombs, lances and one Fire Salamander , who can live in, eat and his drunken blood protects from fire (1697–1706; 1709–1763)
As the ruling communists aimed to build a quasi-unitary state, the state was dissolved by a change of the Constitution of East Germany in July 1952. All of the five Länder were replaced by 14 newly formed Bezirke. In case of Saxony-Anhalt, the territory was transferred to the Bezirke Cottbus, Halle, Leipzig and Magdeburg.
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 ...
When Prussia was disbanded in 1947, the province became the state of Saxony-Anhalt. It became part of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1949. From 1952 to 1990 Saxony-Anhalt was divided into the East German districts of Halle and Magdeburg. In 1990, in the course of German reunification, the districts were reintegrated as a state.
Saxony-Anhalt (German: Sachsen-Anhalt [ˌzaksn̩ ˈʔanhalt] ⓘ; Low German: Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of 20,451.7 square kilometres (7,896.4 sq mi) [ 1 ] and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, [ 2 ] making it the 8th-largest state ...
The capital of Anhalt (at the times when it was a united state) was Dessau. [citation needed] In 1918, Anhalt became a state within the Weimar Republic (see Free State of Anhalt). After World War II it was united with the Prussian parts of Saxony in order to form the new state of Saxony-Anhalt.