Danzig Historical Flags (Prussia, Germany)

nowadays Gdan´sk (Poland)

Last modified: 2005-06-03 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Hanging Flag 14th Century
• Until 1457
• 1457-1939 (Freistadt Danzig 1920-1939)
• Blue Ensign 18th century - 1823 (reported 1805)
• Civil Ensign 17th-18th Centuries (reported 1695 and 1756, doubtful)
• Civil Ensign 18th-19th Centuries (reported 18th century and 1862, doubtful)
• 1805 Flag (doubtful)

See also:

• Komturia Danzig (Teutonic Order)
• Free City of Danzig 1920-1939
• Gdan´sk (Poland)
• Hanseatic Cities (Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland)
• Germany

The 1805 flag, as the one with four crosses topped by royal crowns and the one with three royal crowns, is a fantasy flag. There is some evidence, on the contrary, of a blue flag with two white crosses and a white flag with two red crosses (similar to the British system, as also adopted in Hamburg<