Stralsund 17th-19th Centuries (Brandenburg, Germany)

Reported 1695, 1805, 1848 and 1862

Last modified: 2004-08-07 by santiago dotor
Keywords: brandenburg | stralsund | sun | arrowhead (white) | cross (white) |
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both by Jaume Ollé

• Description
• Hanging Flag 14th Century

See also:

• City of Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania, Germany)
• Hanseatic Cities (Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland)
• Prussia Historical Flags
• Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania (Germany)
• Germany

Stralsund is a north German city, in the Land Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (population about 76,000). The flag they used [when I travelled there], was red with a white cross and arrowhead. I think I remember having seen this design in old flag charts, but wasn't there also a flag with a yellow sun on a red field?

Jan Oskar Engene, 14 May 1996

Red flag with a gold sun (with face) at center.

Norman Martin, 20 January 1998

In Smith 1975, p. 115, there is a red flag with two arrowheads for Stralsund. I have grave doubts about the smile — on an old flag chart I have the sun is looking stern.

Jarig Bakker, 30 March 1999

The German editors of