Stralsund 17th-19th Centuries (Brandenburg, Germany)

Reported 1695, 1805, 1848 and 1862

Last modified: 2002-12-07 by santiago dotor
Keywords: brandenburg | stralsund | sun | arrowhead (white) | cross (white) |
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both by Jaume Ollé

• Description
• Hanging Flag 14th Century

See also:

• City of Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania, Germany)
• Hanseatic Cities (Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland)
• Prussia Historical Flags
• Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania (Germany)
• Germany

Stralsund is a north German city, in the Land Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (population about 76,000). The flag they used [when I travelled there], was red with a white cross and arrowhead. I think I remember having seen this design in old flag charts, but wasn't there also a flag with a yellow sun on a red field?

Jan Oskar Engene, 14 May 1996

Red flag with a gold sun (with face) at center.

Norman Martin, 20 January 1998

In Smith 1975, p. 115, there is a red flag with two arrowheads for Stralsund. I have grave doubts about the smile — on an old flag chart I have the sun is looking stern.

Jarig Bakker, 30 March 1999

by Phil Nelson

Znamierowski 1999 shows several interesting flags of the Port Cities of northern Europe. These are derived from gonfanons, originally red in color. The flags, in a banner form [i.e. hanging flags], were flown from the stern of the vessels, the mast carrying the gonfanon of the colors. The oldest of the series, from the mid-13th century, that of Hamburg, was followed among others by Stralsund in the 14th century.

Phil Nelson, 20 February 2000