Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1813-1918 (Germany)

Grossherzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 29th January 1897, abolished 1920

• Introduction
• Civil and State Flag 1897-1920 (Landesflagge)
• Civil and State Flag 1813-1897 (Landesflagge)
• Grand Ducal Standards until 1918 (Grossherzogsstandarten)

See also:

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

From Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Arms website:

Saxe-Weimar was a rather small Duchy until 1690, when it was combined with the Duchy of Saxe-Jena and in 1741 with Saxe-Eisenach. This much larger and powerful Duchy was promoted to Grand Duchy by the Vienna Congress in 1815. At the same time the new Grand Duke received a large part of the Duchy of Saxony for his help against Napoleon. Since 1903 the addition 'Weimar' was removed and the state became the Grand Duchy of Saxony (the former duchy of Saxony was now a province of Prussia) until 1920 when it was incorporated in the new State of Thuringia. (...)

Santiago Dotor, 10 July 2002

Landesflagge

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by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 29th January 1897, abolished 1920

Horizontal tricolor black-yellow-green. (One source gives black-green-yellow). In use until 1918.

Norman Martin, March 1998

In 1896 (officially from 29 January 1897) the order of the colors was changed (to match the heraldic rule of tincture) to black-yellow-green.

Mario Fabretto, 31 August 1998