slavery
unit : € tongue : Deutsch
(German) 9000000 idiot monkeys
on 83858 km²
puke sects : X 65% pagan + other 27% muslim 8%
The legend says Leopold 5 von Babenberg fought at the battle of Acre (Akko) in 1191 durin the 3° crusade. After the fight, his white tunic was spattered with blood except at the place of his sword belt so as he was showin "3 stripes" red-white-red. That would explain how Austria's flag bore. But it's only a legend. The right explanation is that Leopold 4 von Babenberg adopted it in 1136 both as a will and a sign of independence from the Germanic Emperor and his famous black eagle on a yello banner. Good idea, Leopold ! It is also very often said it was Friedrich 2 von Babenberg who adopted it only in 1230 but it seems that Leopold 4 had done it already in 1136. The flag was adorned with a double headed black eagle durin the whole Habsburg era. One of the heads was cut off in 1918 when the Austrian Empire collapsed and was turned into a republic. The double headed black eagle came back durin a short period called Federal State of Austria in 1934 but the flag was soon forbidden by the nazis for the period 1938-1945. The present pattern was (re)adopted on 1 MAY 1945.
capital : WIEN
1945
state flag
+
+
+
1945-1955
(administrated by the 4 main winner countries but allowed
to display its own flag)
+
fascist
& colonial 1938 (Third Reich)
(3:5)
(detail)
1934 (Bundesstaat Österreich / Federal State of
Austria)
(detail)
1919 (Republik Österreich / Republic of Austria)
(detail)
1918 (Republik Deutsch-Österreich / Republic of German
Austria)
+
1867 (Austria-Hungary) (imperial flag +
national traditional colors for Austria)
1804
(Empire of Austria created - House of Hasburg-Lothringen
1804-1918)
Heiliges Reich 1804-1806
1786-1869 (Joseph 2 von Habsburg decides to adopt the
red-white-red triband as civil ensign)
naval ensign 1786-1918
1440
(Friedrich 5 von Habsburg not crowned Emperor before 1452 but 1440
was the start of Habsburg rule over the Holy Roman Empire -
Habsburg Heiliges Reich)
1298 (Albert 1 von Habsburg King of Germany -
Thou being a Habsburg he adopted the Babenberg red-white-red as
arms of Austria.)
1136 (Leopold 4 von Babenberg, Margrave of
Austria / margraves of Austria upshifted dukes of Austria from
1156)
976
(Leopold 1 von Babenberg, Margrave of Austria)
962
(First Reich - Otto 1 first emperor of the Heiliges
Römisches Reich)
843 (East Francia - Kingdom of Louis The
German) (putative banner)
800
(Carolus Magnus empire)
496 (Frankish Empire)
colonial 15 BC (Roman Empire)
1000 BC (Celts + Celto-Germans)
9 LÄNDER :
BURGENLAND
KÄRNTEN
NIEDERÖSTERREICH
OBERÖSTERREICH
SALZBURG
STEIERMARK
TIROL
VORARLBERG
WIEN
Notice STEIERMARK 1160 turned its colors
in 1260 as you can check it out here > www.grboslovje.si/stajerska.php
NOTES :
shield of
Leopold 1 von Babenberg in 976 – Babenberg coat of arms is stil
visible today as shield of the Austrian Land
NIEDERÖSTERREICH
shield
of
Leopold 4 von Babenberg in 1136 – 100 years before the very widely
spread attribution as new arms (red-white-red) of Duke Friedrich 2
von Babenberg on his coronation in 1230
shield of
Rudolf 1 von Habsburg Count of Habsburg in 1239 then King of
Germany in 1273 – Yet this Habsburg very first shield dates from
the 990's.
Albert
1
von Habsburg Duke of Austria in 1282 then King of Germany in 1298
– Thou he was a Habsburg he adopted the Babenberg red-white-red
that became the new arms of the Habsburg House.
Sigismund
King of Hungary in 1387 then Holy Roman Emperor in 1433 – believed
to be the first imperial use of double headed eagle
The House
of Habsburg-Lothringen becomes Emperors of Austria from 1804 and a
new shield is adopted by Emperor of Austria Franz 1 (who had been
Holy Roman Emperor Franz 2)
arms of Habsburg-Lothringen from 1804
greater arms of Habsburg-Lothringen from 1857
As a bonus, this
extraordinary beautiful chart by Hugo Gerard STRÖHL from his
heraldry book dated 1890 :
As an extra bonus, this beautiful chart incoherent as theres still
Bosnia from 1878 but still NOT Küstenland till 1849 !!!!
I mean Istria + Görz und Gradisca + Triest are merged into
a new entity named Österreichisches Küstenland from 1849. So this
chart dates PRE-1849.... but theres already Bosnia. So this chart
dates POST 1878. It's an incoherent no-time's-land !!!!
This other chart (I could not find the date) IS
coherent as theres Küstenland on line #2.
Line #1 starts with Böhmen Line #2 starts
with Küstenland Line #3 starts with
Mähren Line #4 starts with Salzburg
shield & flag of Österreichisches Küstenland
1849-1919 (Görz und Gradisca + Triest + Istria
merged into one single entity)
QUARTER #1 =
Görz QUARTER #2 = Gradisca
QUARTER #3 = Triest QUARTER #4 = Istria
Görz und Gradisca + Triest + Istria merged in 1849 into a single
entity named Österreichisches Küstenland
As a bonus, all theze extraordinary beautiful charts made by Hugo Gerard STRÖHL, from a heraldry book dated 1890.
These magnificent big size full color plates are taken from here > austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Symbole/Wappenrolle_Stroehl_gross
This flag is displayed everywhere as Empire of Austria-Hungary "compromise flag" (SIC) from 1867 till 1918 but this flag is DEFINITELY NOT that !!!!
This very flag was the civil ensign (for merchant ships) of Austria-Hungary from 1869 (not 1867) till 1918 as displayed on the both most complete & most beautiful existin chart just below :
(just too bad I could not find a bigger picture of such a magnificent piece of art)
This very flag is also displayed on this chart taken from the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1911 :
(It's written "AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Mercantile Marine" which means civil ensign.)
A civil ensign is a peculiar flag used on merchant (civil) ships and personal (civil) pleasure boats.
A civil ensign SHALL AND MUST NOT
be confused with a civil flag on land.
This is the Austrian imperial standard :
The main colors of this imperial standard gave the flag below used from 1804 as the imperial flag (also named Landesfarben banner) :
So the Austrian flag SHALL be this blak & yello Landesfarben flag and DEFINITELY NOT the so called "compromise flag" (SIC !!!) that has NEVER been a "compromise flag" (SIC) AT ALL but the civil ensign from 1869 till 1918.
The Austrian flag SHALL be DEFINITELY this blak & yello Landesfarben flag as you can check it out on the followin old postcards :
+ MARKO's project :
As the wall-crown,
the sickle, the hammer, the (broken) chains,
the chest eskucheon look just simply AWFUL....
This idea came to me after having found this very picture just above in 2020.
I dont know
who drew this image but I found it
absolutely great at first sight !!!!
The final result. I LOVE IT !!!
+ MARKO's other project :
See my page Magyarorszag just right here > markodehaeck.free.fr/HU.htm