Red White Red
The color sequence red-white-red , heraldic red- silver- red , are the national colors of Austria , Latvia , Lebanon and Peru . In German, red-white-red is primarily a synonym for the national colors of Austria. The underlying symbolism is red for blood and white for immaculateness, in Peru a more modern concept of love and freedom. The colors can also be found in Leuven , Valls , Freistadt and other cities, the Austrian coat of arms has produced countless descendants.
There is no 'red-white-red' in the national symbolism of Lebanon and Canada , whose flags contain the colors in this episode.
Overview
Flag of Austria :
Austria's national flag shows three equally wide stripes (1: 1: 1) - correctly “the silver (white) band on a red background”. The official flag shows the federal eagle (again the colors in its heart shield).
Flag of Latvia :
Latvia's flag is not in heraldic (high) red, but expressly in Latvian red (a carmine red ), and the bar is only half as wide (2: 1: 2), so no tricolor in the sense of the term.
Flag of Peru ( bandera nacional ):
The hoist flag is split in pure red-white-red (1: 1: 1), the national flag shows the coat of arms of Peru
The various flags also differ in their format (ratio of width to length), which is 2: 3 for the Austrian, Lebanon and Peru flags, but 1: 2 for the Latvian and Canadian flags.
Austria
The colors of the flag of Austria and the breast shield of the Austrian eagle are interpreted as a blood-soaked cloth: the Babenberg shield is the originally white, after the siege of Akkon (1189–1191) blood-red tunic of the crusader Leopold V (1157–1194), with a remaining white stripes where the sword belt was. The myth was formed in the course of the 13th century (earliest written source in a document around 1260), but it should not be historical.
Today it is designed in the style of the tricolor , due to a vexillological / heraldic standardization - the trunk forms showed a narrow white stripe, the band on the red background, similar to the Latvian flag.
The Austrian flag has been the national flag since 1918, and it has been a symbol of Austria since the Babenbergs (12th / 13th centuries). It was adopted by the Habsburgs for the Duchy of Austria and, like the Latvian, is one of the oldest flags in the world that is still in use today.
Latvia
The educational myth of the Latvian flag is similar to that of the Austrian:
The Latvian flag symbolizes a cloth with the dried blood of the fighters for Latvian independence, which shows the imprint of a linen rope. This symbolism is already mentioned in the Livonian Rhyming Chronicle from 1279. The Latvian national flag was introduced after independence in 1921, and again in 1990.
Peru
The flag of Peru was originally split in 1822 ( "striated"), with a red, goldbestrahlten sun as an emblem, but in 1825 split ( "vertical stripes") was introduced, then presumably to be red red-yellow of the Spanish flag delineate . The red-white-red of Peru is not based on the blood symbolism , but it is derived in the form and probably also in the colors from the revolutionary flag of France , with white for freedom and red for love.
Different red-white-red symbolism
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Salzburg (in the coat of arms on the left of the gap) - presumably of different origin, the diocese was never Habsburg; National colors red and white |
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Leuven (Belgium) - The legend of the coat of arms goes back to the 880s and is similar to the Babenberg-Austrian |
The red-white-red coat of arms of Freistadt (Upper Austria), and perhaps also Valls in Catalonia and the Count Gallas , but probably Leuwenisch Vianden (now Luxembourg, from 1288) and the flags of the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany , Duchy of Modena and of the Habsburg family, is of Habsburg origin Elba are also based on the Habsburg descent.
Other flags with white on red
There are also other countries that have chosen the same color sequence for their national flags. The national symbols of these two countries are not the colors, but the cedar and the maple leaf.
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The flag of Lebanon shows - in addition to the obligatory Lebanon cedar ( Cedrus libani ) as an image - a bar twice as wide (1: 2: 1) as the Austrian. In the Lebanese flag - with a similar symbolism partly to Peru, partly to Austria and Latvia - the white field symbolizes the snow of the Lebanon Mountains , red the blood-soaked settlement land in the freedom struggle during the Ottoman era and the French occupation from 1921 to 1943, as well as the two tribes of the Yemenis or Kayssites . As a tricolor, it is also derived from the flag of France, but according to the constitution of Lebanon the colors of the flag are red, white and green, they create a certain reference to the Pan-Arab colors . |
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The flag of Canada is described as "red maple leaf on silver Canadian pile in a three-lane flag" - the leaf, the leaf Maple , is one of the Canadian maple (sugar maple , Acer saccharum ); the stake is a square central field. It is also not a tricolor, but follows the scheme 1: 2: 1. The Canadian post ( Canadian pale ) is a heraldic field without symbolism, it is the framing of the maple leaf, and it is also expressly laid the red border fields, so that can not be "white-red red-flag" speak of. An early color interpretation is white for the arctic snow and red for the two oceans (Atlantic, Pacific). In the Canadian popular consciousness, “red-white-red” does not play a role, one speaks of “ red and white ” when one means the flag, but mostly simply the “ maple leaf ”. |
literature
- ↑ a b Federal Ministry of the Interior: The symbols of the republic. In: Public Safety 11–12 / 06, p. 74 ( web document , pdf)
- ^ Cleveland H. Smith and Gertrude R. Taylor: Flags of All Nations. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1946, p. 101.
- ↑ Decree No. 1323, March 31, 1950.
- ^ António Martins: History of the Peruvian Flag. FOTW Flags Of The World, crwflags.com, February 23, 2008, accessed July 21, 2008 .
- ↑ Es la bandera del Perú, de rojo y blanco color, cual llamarada de amor, que en Ayacucho y en Junín victoriosa amaneció con el sol de la Libertad !!! - Marcha de Banderas . Quoted from António Martins / Flags Of The World: History of the Peruvian Flag.
- ^ Eugene Ipavec: Lebanon - Description. FOTW Flags Of The World, January 19, 2008, accessed July 21, 2008 .
- ↑ a b Gules ("red") on a Canadian pale argent ("silver") a maple leaf of the first. Quote Emblems of Canada ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved March 25, 2008.