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Schaumburg-Lippe 1815-1935 (Germany)

Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe 1815-1918, Fürstentum Schaumburg-Lippe

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by Zeljko Heimer and Marcus Schmöger

Introduction
Civil and State Flag c.1880-1935 (Landesflagge)
Civil and State Flag until c.1880 (Landesflagge)
Princely Standards until 1918 (Fürstenstandarten)

See also:

Principality of Lippe 1815-1918 (Fürstentum Lippe)
Current Use of Former States Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
Historical Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen, Germany)
Germany

Other sites:

Questions and Answers about Schaumburg-Lippe (German text only) at the Universität Hannover Historisches Seminar
Map of the Partition of the County of Schaumburg 1647 (between Schaumburg-Lippe, Hesse and Brunswick) at the same website

Introduction

From this Genealogy.net webpage:

Schaumburg-Lippe is a historical German state that lay between the Weser and Leine rivers (without touching either), and was bounded on the south by the Weser mountains and crossed in the north by the Rehburger mountains (...), with an area of 340 square kilometers. Its population in 1933 was ca. 50,000.
Schaumburg-Lippe was one of the smallest German states until the end of World War II. It was formed after the 30 Years War, when Graf [Count] Otto V of Schaumburg died without issue. The older and larger Grafschaft Schaumburg went to his mother, Gräfin [Countess] Elisabeth as the only legal heir, who in 1643 transferred her rights to her brother, Graf Philipp zur Lippe-Alverdissen, with whom she ruled as coregent until her death in 1646. (...) Finally in 1647, after many territorial demands made by neighboring states, the Landgraf von Hessen and Graf Phillip zur Lippe-Alverdissen decided to divide the Grafschaft Schaumburg. (...) The remaining area (...) formed the new Grafschaft Schaumburg-Lippe. (...) This division was codified in the Peace of Münster.
The rulers of Schaumburg-Lippe had their seat and the family still has their residence at the Schloß Bückeburg. They also have or had manors or properties at [several palaces, among them] the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn (from 1891-1939; it was later the offi