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North Frisia (Germany)

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Jan Oskar Engene, 1995-12-06

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North Frisia is now part of Schleswig-Holstein.

Description of the flag

There is an official coat of arms for the District (Landeskrei) of North Frisia, created in 1970. This is

In blue three golden, three-masted ships in 16th-century style having the position 2:1 with golden sails and red pennants

The flag has a broad central stripe with the arms as described, and with narrower stripes at the top and bottom, the inner ones golden, the outer ones red.

Source: Thomas Steensen: The Frisians in Schleswig-Holstein, Braeist/Bredstedt: Nordfriisk Instituut, 1994

Jan Oskar Engene, 1995-12-07

Flag with three stripes

Some time ago I got a different flag from the North Frisian Institute in Braeist (Bredstedt). It is a simple yellow-red-blue flag, the gölj-rüüdj-ween as it is called in the North Frisian language (also the title of the unofficial gold, red and blue have been the North Frisian colours since the beginning of this century. The colours are taken from the backgrounds of the fields in the coat of arms.

Source: Thomas Steensen: The Frisians in Schleswig-Holstein, Braeist/Bredstedt: Nordfriisk Instituut, 1994

Jan Oskar Engene, 1995-12-06

Flag with a Scandinavian Cross

I found in the book A handbook of flags, by Preben Kannik, printed by Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1958, a Frisian (Germany) flag which has a blue Scandinavian cross on a red Scandinavian cross on a yellow field. The colors are disposed 6-1-2-1-12.

Pascal Vagnat, 1995-12-06

I recently bought the 1956 Norwegian edition of Kannik's book and noticed the same. In the notes it is explained that the Scandinavian cross pattern was chosen to symbolise the relationship of the Frisians to the Nordic countries (whatever that may have been - except for the fact that the North Frisians once were ruled by Denmark).

See also: Scandinavian Crosses

Jan Oskar Engene, 1995-12-06