City of Cuxhaven (Cuxhaven County, Lower Saxony, Germany)

Stadt Cuxhaven

Last modified: 2003-12-13 by santiago dotor
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by Stefan Schwoon

• Introduction
• Description
• Probably Mistaken Flag

See also:

• County and Municipal Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Germany

Cuxhaven was never part of Bremen. It was part of the Free City of Hamburg till 1937 and became then part of the Prussian province of Hanover and therefore 1946 part of the federal state of Lower Saxony.

Kai A. Hamm, 23 June 2000

The flag of Cuxhaven is white-red with the arms. Sources: Stadler 1970 and Keyser 1939-1974. Also the image at this flagseller's website — the writing Cuxhaven and the extra border around the arms are probably just artistic license. Cuxhaven belonged to Hamburg until