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Kaisers Dank by Ludwig Koch from 1915. Visible various flags used in Austria-Hungary

During its existence, Austria-Hungary did not have a common flag – a "national flag" could not exist since the Dual Monarchy consisted of two sovereign states. However, the black-gold flag of the ruling Habsburg Dynasty was sometimes used as a de facto national flag and a common civil ensign was introduced in 1869 for civilian vessels. Until 1918, the k.u.k. War Fleet continued to carry the Austrian ensign it had used since 1786 and the regiments of the k.u.k. Army carried the double-eagle banners they had used before 1867, as they had a long history in many cases. New ensigns created in 1915 were not implemented due to the ongoing war. At state functions, the Austrian black-gold and the Hungarian red-white-green tricolor were used. Austria was represented by the black-gold flag. The Hungarian half of the state, on the other hand, legally had no flag of its own.[1] According to the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement (art. 62 and 63), in all joint Croatian and Hungarian affairs, symbols of both Croatia and Hungary respectively had to be used. For instance, whenever the joint Hungarian-Croatian Parliament held its session in Budapest, both the Croatian and Hungarian flags were hoisted on the parliament building in Budapest.[1][2][3] In Vienna, in front of Schönbrunn Palace, the black and gold flag was flown for Cisleithania (Austrian half), while both Croatian and Hungarian flags were flown for Transleithania (Hungarian half).[3] Hungary proper used a red-white-green tricolor defaced with the Hungarian coat of arms, sometimes used to represent the entirety of the Lands of the Hungarian Crown. The "double" civil ensign, as a symbol of "corporate identity", was also used as the consular flag, as decreed on 18 February 1869. It came into use on 1 August 1869. Legations, however, flew the black-and-gold flag of Austria alongside the red-white-green flag of Hungary, while embassies flew the two national flags alongside the imperial standard.[4]

National and state flags

Imperial and military standards

Ensigns

Civil ensigns

Naval ensigns

Regional flags

Additionally, several flags were in use within the local territories of Austria-Hungary.

File:Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Cisleithania
Location Region name Flag
File:Niederoesterreich Donaumonarchie.png Archduchy of Austria
(Lower Austria) 		File:Flag of Niederösterreich.svg
File:Oberoesterreich Donaumonarchie.png Archduchy of Austria
(Upper Austria) 		File:Flag of Oberösterreich.svg
File:Boehmen Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Bohemia File:Flag of Bohemia.svg
File:Dalmatien Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Dalmatia File:Flag of Dalmatia.svg
File:Galizien Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria File:Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria (1849-1890).png
(1849–1890)
File:Flag of Galicia-Lodomeria (1890–1918).svg
(1890–1918)
File:Tirol Donaumonarchie.png County of Tyrol File:Flag of Tirol.svg
File:Bukowina Donaumonarchie.png Duchy of Bukovina File:Flag of Bukowina.svg
File:Schlesien Donaumonarchie.png Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia File:Flag of Czech Silesia.svg
File:Kaernten Donaumonarchie.png Duchy of Carinthia File:Flag of Carinthia.svg
File:Krain Donaumonarchie.png Duchy of Carniola File:Flag of Krain.svg
File:Salzburg Donaumonarchie.png Duchy of Salzburg File:Vlag Hertogdom Salzburg.svg
File:Steiermark Donaumonarchie.png Duchy of Styria File:Flag of Steiermark.svg
File:Maehren Donaumonarchie.png Margraviate of Moravia File:Flag of Moravia.svg
File:Kuestenland Donaumonarchie.png Austrian Littoral, including:

Imperial Free City of Trieste

Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca

March of Istria

File:Flag of Istrien.svg
(Austrian Littoral)

File:Flag of Imperial Free City of Trieste.svg
(Imperial Free City of Trieste)

File:Flag of Görz und Gradisca.svg
(Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca)

File:Flag of the Austrian Littoral.svg
(March of Istria)

File:Vorarlberg Donaumonarchie.png Vorarlberg File:Flag of Salzburg, Vienna, Vorarlberg.svg
File:Civil Ensign of Hungary.svg Transleithania
Location Region name Flag
File:Ungarn mit Siebenbuergen und Woiwodina Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Hungary File:Flag of Hungary (1867-1918).svg
File:Siebenbuergen Donaumonarchie.png Principality of Transylvania File:Flag of Transylvania before 1918.svg
File:Woiwodina Donaumonarchie.png Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar File:Flag of Serbian Vojvodina.svg
File:Kroatien und Slawonien Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia File:Flag of Croatia-Slavonia.svg
File:Kroatien Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Croatia File:Flag of the Kingdom of Croatia.svg
File:Slawonien Donaumonarchie.png Kingdom of Slavonia File:Colours of Slavonia.svg
File:Fiume Donaumonarchie.png City of Fiume and its District File:Flag of the Free State of Fiume.svg
File:Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg File:Civil Ensign of Hungary.svg Condominium
Location Region name Flag
File:Bosnien und Herzegowina Donaumonarchie.png Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina File:Flag of Bosnia (1908-1918).svg

Examples of using flags in the era

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See also

References

  1. ↑ The official version prescribed the Crown of St. Stephen, the same as on the Hungarian flag, to be used. See Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia: Symbols
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Habsburg | H-Net". www.h-net.org. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Austria. Reichsrat. Abgeordnetenhaus (1903). Stenographische protokolle über die sitzungen ...: 1. (eröffnungs-) bis [485.] sitzung ... Aus der K.-k. Hof -und staatsdruckerei. p. 20714.:

    Der § 63 spricht auch von einer kroatisch-slavonisch-dalmatinischen vereinigten Fahne auf Reichstagsgebäude. Diese Fahne war bis anno domini 1902 allen Dimensionen nach gleich ungarische Fahne.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pliverić, Josip (1907). Spomenica o državnopravnih pitanjih hrvatsko-ugarskih. Zagreb: Hartman (Stjepan Kugli)., p. 50
  4. ↑ Rudolf Agstner, Austria(-Hungary) and Its Consulates in the United States of America since 1820 (LIT Verlag, 2012), p. 45.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Imperial Standard of Austria, Flags of the World".
  6. ↑ "Austro-Hungarian Empire: Military Flags".
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The Flags & Arms of the Modern Era
  8. ↑ Album of standards, flags and pennants of the Russian Empire and foreign states. 1890. p. 39.
  9. ↑ The Flags & Arms of the Modern Era
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