East Frisian Landschaft (Lower Saxony, Germany)

Ostfriesische Landschaft, East Frisia, Ostfriesland

Last modified: 2004-03-06 by santiago dotor
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by Marcus Schmöger
Flag adopted 1989

• Description
• Origin of the black-red-blue flag
• Municipal Flags:
  • City of Jever (Stadt Jever)
  • City of Norden (Stadt Norden)
  • City of Papenburg (Stadt Papenburg)
  • Municipality of Saterland (Gemeinde Saterland)
• East Frisian Islands:
  • Baltrum (Gemeinde Baltrum)
  • Borkum (Stadt Borkum)
  • Juist (Gemeinde Juist)
  • Langeoog (Gemeinde Langeoog)
  • Norderney (Stadt Norderney)
  • Spiekeroog (Gemeinde Spiekeroog)
  • Wangerooge (Gemeinde Wangerooge)
• Historical Flags:
  • Principality of East Frisia until 1744 (Fürstentum Ostfriesland)
  • County of Norden (Grafschaft Norden)

See also:

• Other Frisian territories:
  • North Frisia (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
  • West Frisia (Netherlands)
  • Friesland (Netherlands)
• Higher Communal Associations (Höhere Kommunalverbände, including Landschaften)
• County, Municipal and Island Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)

Other sites:

• Zwischen Borkum und Sylt: Die Wappen und Flaggen der deutschen Watteninseln (From Borkum to Sylt: Coats-of-Arms and Flags of the German 'Mud Islands', German text only) by Hans van Heijningen at Der Flaggenkurier website, images available in a zipped PDF file here

Black over red over blue. East Frisia is now a part of Lower Saxony, but at one time it was an independent state, until 1744. Later it became part of Prussia, then Hannover, then Prussia again. At times it was ruled by France or the N