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Principalities of Reuss-Gera and Reuss-Greiz 1778-1919 (Reuss, Germany)

Fürstentüme Reuss-Gera und Reuss-Greiz

Introduction
Reuss-Greiz or Reuss Elder Line 1778-1918 (Reuss-Greiz or Reuss ältere Linie)
Reuss-Greiz Sovereign Prince's Standard until 1918 (Fürstenstandarte Reuss-Greiz)
Reuss-Gera or Reuss Younger Line 1848-1918 (Reuss-Gera or Reuss jüngere Linie / Reuss-Schleiz-Gera 1802-1848)
Reuss-Plauen, Elder Line until 1768 (Reuss-Plauen ältere Linie)
Reuss-Plauen, Younger Line until 1666 (Reuss-Plauen jüngere Linie)
Reuss-Lobenstein until 1848
People's Republic of Reuss 1919

See also:

Clicable map of Saxon Duchies 1871-1918 (Germany)
Historical Flags (Thuringia, Germany)
Thuringia (Thuringen)
Germany

Other sites:

Reuss Coat-of-Arms at Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website

Introduction

There are several principalities with the name Reuss. In addition the princely dynasty was split into a senior and junior branch [ältere Linie and jüngere Linie], each of them ruling some of the Reusses. I have found the following flag information. The colours are black-red-yellow. For the principalities of the junior branch, a "tricolour of the French type" [i.e. vertical stripes], for the senior branch, a horizontal triband (like the present German flag). The order of the colours is a bit unclear — it might also have been black-yellow-red. Source: Mattern and Neubecker 1977.

Harald Müller, 23 July 1996

In general [in] the 17th century the flag was black and yellow, colors coming from those of the ruling family. Later the red was added. The three colors are known from the time of the Rhine Confederation (1806-1814). In 1734 the officers of the 2nd regiment of Schwarzburg and Reuss united and wore the colors black-white-red, while during the Rhine Confederation the colors were yellow-red-black. On 14 August 1814, after the Paris peace treaty, soldiers from Reuss who fought against Napoleon brou