Flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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State flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

The flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania references Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Pomerania .

Country flag

The state flag of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is - from top to bottom - ultramarine blue, white, yellow, white and vermilion. The ratio of the widths of the five strips to one another is 4: 3: 1: 3: 4. The flag is in the law on the national emblems of the state of January 29, 1991 (Law and Ordinance Gazette for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1991, p. 14) in the version of the announcement of July 23, 1991 (GVOBl. MV 1991, p. 293f. ) specified.

With regard to the selection and sequence of the colors, it is a combination of the flags of Mecklenburg (blue-yellow-red) and Western Pomerania (blue-white). The blue-white-red combination also contained corresponds to the Mecklenburg trade flag used in the 19th century . The colors are also symbolic for sea and sky (blue), fields (yellow) and brick (red).

In addition to the national flag, the traditional flags can be used in both parts of the country.

State service flag

State service flag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

In the state service flag , the heraldic figures of the two parts of Mecklenburg ( bull's head ) and Western Pomerania ( Greif ) are shown without a shield . The yellow line is interrupted for this.

Mecklenburg

Flag of the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg
Today's flag of Mecklenburg

The Mecklenburg flag, which was set for Mecklenburg-Schwerin by Duke Friedrich Franz I on March 26, 1813 , is horizontally evenly divided into blue, golden yellow and red.

It is often found today with the bull on a white or gold shield . However, this representation is not correct.

The gold comes from the color of Mecklenburg's main coat of arms, the blue stands for the rule of Rostock , which was added in 1323, and red for the county of Schwerin, which was regained in 1358 . Until the 16th century, the black of the bull's head was also one of the colors of the national flag.

The establishment of the colors in 1813 initially concerned the cockades of the uniforms. The order of the colors was finally determined by a flag ordinance issued for Mecklenburg-Schwerin on December 23, 1863. On January 4, 1864, Mecklenburg-Strelitz issued an ordinance with practically identical words. Mecklenburg-Schwerin had previously introduced a shipping flag in blue, white and red by ordinance of March 24, 1855. It remained valid for both parts of Mecklenburg until 1935 and was replaced by the swastika flag after the synchronization .

In the constitution of the state of Mecklenburg of 1947, blue-yellow-red were also specified as the state colors, whereby the Western Pomerania area was not taken into account. With the administrative reform of 1952, in which the states were restructured into the districts of the GDR , the use of the state flag became obsolete. Private use in public was suppressed as undesirable.

In 1990/91 the old flag of Mecklenburg was provisionally used for the new state.


Flag of Mecklenburg as the provisional flag of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at the reunification ceremony on October 3, 1990

Western Pomerania

Pomeranian flag

The Western / Pomeranian flag is horizontally divided in half into light blue and white. Optionally the red Pomeranian griffin can be found on it .

The light blue and white of today's flag has no relation to the colors of the Duchy of Pomerania . 1802 was in a cabinet order of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. instructed the members of the estates of all Prussian provinces to wear a blue interim skirt in addition to the dress uniform . To distinguish between the provinces, different colors of the collar cuffs were assigned. The representatives of the Pomeranian Province initially got white with gold.

In an ordinance on the organization of the Prussian Landwehr from 1813, however, the gold embroidery was dropped, so that the Pomeranian Landwehr wore a blue uniform with a white collar and a blue cap with a white stripe. With this uniform, blue and white became the general color of the province. In a cabinet order of October 22, 1882, the Pomeranian colors were also normatively defined. The Prussian blue , which is stipulated in the standard and tends to be dark, did not catch on in general flag usage. Instead, the light blue was still preferred.

See also

literature

  • Norbert Buske : Coat of arms, colors and hymns of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. An explanation of the new national emblems of the country combined with a walk through the history of the two parts of the country illustrated by the development of their coats of arms . With photos by Thomas Helms. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-86108-202-0 , p. 98ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government Gazette Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1864 No. 2 p. 10
  2. ^ Government Gazette Mecklenburg-Strelitz No. 1 p. 3
  3. ↑ Mecklenburg-Schwerin Government Gazette No. 14 p. 65
  4. ↑ http://www.protokoll-inland.de/PI/DE/Beflaggung/BesBeflaggungssituationen/FlaggederEinheit/flaggedeinheit_node.html
  5. ↑ http://www.protokoll-inland.de/SharedDocs/Bilder/PI/DE/Beflaggung/BesBeflaggungssituationen/19.html?nn=1836522&isPoster=true