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AUSTRIA (Republic of) (Republik Österreich) [www.at]

slavery unit : € tongue : Deutsch (German) oficial regional tongues : Magyar, Slovenski, Burgenland Hrvatski 9000000 idiot monkeys on 85000 km²

puke sects : X 65% pagan + other 25% muslim 10%

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 (Deutsches Reich / 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)

768 (Carolus Magnus King of the Franks - 774 King of the Lombards - 800 Western Roman Emperor - Carolus Magnus' real name is Karl von HERSTAL) (Notice there shall be NO flowers at all but roundels mis-interpreted as flowers - Notice there shall be NO crosslets at all but golden dots mis-interpreted as crosslets. Golden dots were the simplest way to represent the stars.)

(The crosslets were adornin the Labarum of Emperor Constantin 1, not Constantin 6.)

(Constantin 1, alias Constantin The Great, Roman Emperor from 306 to 337.) (Notice he has exactly the same face as Sylvester STALLONE !!!!)

481 (Frankish Kingdom / Regnum Francorum / Frankonriki / Francia)

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 :