Subnational Flags 1815-1918 (Prussia, Germany)

Last modified: 2003-12-13 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Prussian Provinces:
  • Brandenburg Province 1882-1935 (Provinz Brandenburg)
  • East Prussia Province 1882-1935 (Provinz Ostpreussen)
  • Hanover Province 1887-1935 (Provinz Hannover)
  • Hesse-Nassau Province 1892-1935 (Provinz Hessen-Nassau)
  • Hohenzollern Province 1882-1935 (Provinz Hohenzollern)
    • Principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen until 1849 (Fürstentümer Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen und Hohenzollern-Hechingen)
  • Pomerania Province 1882-1935 (Provinz Pommern)
  • Posen Province 1849-1920, Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1849 (Provinz Posen, Großherzogtum Posen)
  • Rhineland 1882-1935 (Provinz Rheinland)
  • Saxony 1884-1935 (Provinz Sachsen)
  • Schleswig-Holstein 1867-1919 (Provinz Schleswig-Holstein)
  • Silesia 1882-1920 (Provinz Schlesien)
  • Westphalia 1882-1935 (Provinz Westfalen)
  • West Prussia 1886-1920 (Provinz Westpreussen)
• Cities:
  • Danzig Historical Flags
  • Elbing Historical Flags
  • Königsberg Historical Flags
  • Memel Historical Flags
  • Stettin Historical Flags
• Neutral Territory of Moresnet 1816-1918

See also:

• Clickable map of Germany 1871-1918
• Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1918
• Subnational Flags 1919-1933 (Prussia, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Prussian Historical Coats-of-Arms at Adam Kromer's Polish Heraldry website

Having grown to an enormous state scattered over most of the German Empire, Prussia found it convenient to organize administrative subdivisions called provinces. Each of these had "land colors" or Landesfarben.

Norman Martin, 20 January 1998

[In 1897] the Prussian provinces had flags with horizontal stripes:

• Brandenburg: red-white
• Hannover: yellow white
• Hessen-Nassau: red-white-blue
• Ostpreussen: black-white
• Pommern: blue-white
• Posen: white-black-white
• Rheinland: green-white
• Sachsen: black-yellow
• Schlesien: white-yellow
• Schleswig-Holstein: blue-white-red
• Westfalen: white-red
• Westpreussen: black-white-black
• Hohenzollernsche Lande: white-black

Jan Kuhlmann, 5 December 1995

Provincial flags for the provinces of Prussia were prescribed from 1882 onwards.

Marcus Schmöger, 12 March 2001