Flag of Thuringia

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Flag of Thuringia
State service flag

The flag of Thuringia consists of a white and red bicolor. The state service flag also bears the Thuringian state coat of arms in the middle. The coat of arms shows a red and white striped lion on a blue shield, surrounded by eight white six-pointed stars.

history

After the merger of the seven people or free states of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , Saxe-Gotha (without Coburg , Bavaria joined), Saxe-Altenburg , Saxe-Meiningen , People's State of Reuss , Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen the state Thuringia was established in 1920, and in that year the flag adopted was a white and red bicolor with a coat of arms in the middle. The coat of arms in the middle showed seven six-pointed stars on a red shield, which represented the former people's or free states and represented the national coat of arms of that time.

After the incorporation of Prussian territories ( administrative district Erfurt ), the state of Thuringia adopted a different coat of arms in 1945, which now shows a golden lion surrounded by eight six-pointed stars. A star has been added for the Prussian areas. Until the dissolution of the federal states in 1952, the GDR kept the flag. After Thuringia was re-established in 1990, the white and red bicolor was declared a flag, but with small differences in the coat of arms. The coat of arms now shows a red and white striped lion on a blue shield, surrounded by eight white six-pointed stars.

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