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Method:
1) RA77 contains all flags of existing clubs in 1976. Problems: The
information is fairly old. The flags are depicted in a black -and-white-code
which comes, I believe from heraldry encoding the tinctures. Vertikal stripes
f.e. mean "red", horizontal ones mean "blue", dots mean "yellow". The flags
are very small (1cm x 1.5 cm).
Sometimes you can't see the details properly. In cantons (and in most
flags) the letters of the inscriptions are always black on a white background.
It may be that they have a different colour. In white flags with saltires
usually the letters are black. There are two types: rectangular flags and
triangular pennants (German:"Wimpel").
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2006
You can see, what colour it is, it is red and blue but you can't see what kind of blue it. The ratio is, as you see above 2:3, but that is caused by the very small pictures and is wrong. I have measured a few helmsmans-flags in Hamburg by myself. I found out that the right ratio is 3: 5 as usual in Germany.
2) In CW06 some websites display the flags. Problems: The flags are displayed as flying colours with a flagstaff and a cord. But you can see the colours.
Primary source is always RA77 unless a club does not appear in RA77. The relations of objects on the flags are always estimated according to RA77. Some clubs may meanwhile be dissolved or have merged with others. Some of the clubs mentioned in RA77 do not appear in an actual namelist of DRV (=German Rowing Federation).
I have meanwhile finished the images of nearly 80 flags. The average size is 10Kb in GIF-format. There are actually more than 400 clubs in Germany. But I think, I'll stop with 100 images maximum because I run out of time.
The flag information shall be very brief, just the following topics: name of club, location of club, establishing-date, specials(only a few), description of flag, website of club.
To keep control I have made an EXCEL-sheet with the columns: name, location, date, status (finished or not),specials, filename, filesize, homepage.
I'll use the terms "right" and left" according to heraldry, i.e. "right" means left and "left" means right to describe objects in the flag as e.g. animals.
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2006
Very special question: What do you call a star with one bigger and stretched
out point? I do not even know the German term, perhaps it should be called
a
comet.
You will wonder, how I displayed 80 flags within a short time. At first many of them are really easy. On the other hand, instead studying flags in Malaysia in the sun in holidays I had to stay at home in rain in Hamburg, because I had serious trouble with my spine. My "holidays" were less boaring designing some flags. And I got a few weeks "extra holidays" from my doctor. But that time will end. And so its time to start the descriptions of flags, that are not finished.
I'll start my contribution with a very brief history of rowing in Germany,
the rules for using flags, an image of the pennant of the federation, the
images of rowing clubs in Lübeck (the corresponding blades you already
got) and an image of the very first flag of a German rowing-club from 1836.
For this flag is too big, the image will be sent one day later.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Apr 2006
Desciption of the DRV-pennant: It's a blue pennant with a white shield
in the centre. In the shield is a black eagle with red claws and a red
beak.
Source: KMS80
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2006
DRV (version 1901)
Description of flag: It is a vertical black, white and red tricolour
pennant.
Source: 25 Jahre Geschichte des Berliner Ruder Vereins von 1876; Berlin,
1 September 1901, flagchart.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Oct 2007