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Koenigsberg Historical Flags (Prussia, Germany)

Königsberg, nowadays Kaliningrad (Russia)

from this webpage, modified by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 19th century, abolished 1906

Introduction
14th Century? - 1945 ("Old Königsberg")
Up to 17th Century
17th-18th Centuries (17th century, 1700 and 1716)
17th-19th Centuries (17th century, 1716, 1737, 1842, 1848 and 1862)
1805
City Flag 19th century-1906

See also:

Introduction

Königsberg was the main harbour of Brandenburg and even if many charts report the striped flag as the flag of Koenigsberg, this was a Brandenburg ensign. Königsberg had a flag —the white-red with crown and cross— which was never used at sea, and a true merchant ensign for the town never existed. The stripes on this flag are represented in number of six or seven, sometimes blue and sometimes black, with or without the shield with the [red] eagle of Brandenburg or the [black] eagle of Prussia).

Mario Fabretto, 4 August 1998

However, even though the Elector of Brandenburg and the Duke, later King, of Prussia were one and the same person, I would have never said that "Königsberg was in Brandenburg". In that case, assigning that flag to Königsberg is simply a big mistake of old charts? I mean, not only was the flag not Königsberg's, but it was not Prussia's ensign either but Brandenburg's. Or maybe there was no Prussian ensign (nor Navy?) before 1701 and thus the only (civil? war?) ensign used by ships before and sometime after 1701 was the Brandenburg one?

Santiago Dotor