Kingdom of Saxony 1806-1918 (Germany)

Königreich Sachsen

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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Flag adopted 16th June 1815, readopted 1920, abolished 1935, readopted 1991

• Civil and State Flag 1815-1935 (Landesflagge)
• Civil and State Flag 1806-1815
• Royal Standards 1815-1918

See also:

• Historical Flags (Saxony)
• Saxony (Sachsen, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Greater Arms of the Kingdom of Saxony (from Ströhl's Deutsche Wappenrolle, German text only) at the Lebendiges virtuelles Museum Online
• Lesser Arms and Greater Arms of the Kingdom of Saxony (from Ströhl's Deutsche Wappenrolle) at Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website
• Sachsen: Herzogtum, Königreich, Land (Saxony: Duchy, Kingdom, State, German text only) by Gerhard Köbler

Landesflagge

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Flag adopted 16th June 1815, readopted 1920, abolished 1935, readopted 1991

Horizontal bicolor white-green. Officially adopted 1815, readopted 1920 and 1991.

Norman Martin, March 1998

On 16th June 1815 the then black over yellow colours of the flag were changed into white over green. Source: Ströhl 1897.

Theo van der Zalm, 14 August 2000

The white-green bicolour of Saxony was adopted by a royal decree on 16 June 1815. These colours already had some tradition in Saxony. The reason for not adopting yellow-black, the armorial tinctures of Saxony, was that Austria, which at the time was Saxony's closest neighbour to the south, used a bicolour of those colours (source: Schurdel 1995 pp. 182-183).

Elias Granqvist, 16 February 2001

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Flag abolished 16th June 1815, readopted for the Prussian Province of Saxony 1884