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Source of all pennants: Poster entitled: "Die geschichtliche Entwicklung
der als deutsche Nationalflaggen auf See gefahrenen und von den seefahrenden
Nationen anerkannten deutschen Kriegs- und Handelsflaggen", (engl:
"The historical evolution of those German national flags used on ships
and recognized as German war flags or merchant flags by the naval nations",
edited by Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven, 1981, based on an original
version of Kapitän zur See a.D. Karl Schultz, all flags on the poster are
painted by E. Paschke, all the pictures are all fairly small,approximated
size a little bit more than 3 cm2.The poster was still available
up till 27 Dec 2003.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
Bremen 1695: The flag has 9 horizontal stripes in alternating colours
red and white, starting with a red stripe at the top end and ending with
another red stripe at the bottom end as well. At the hoist there is the
typical edge at the hoist consisting of 2 vertical red-white chequered
stripes of other flags of Bremen and Wismar.
Source:
Poster entitled: "Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der als deutsche Nationalflaggen
auf See gefahrenen und von den seefahrenden Nationen anerkannten deutschen
Kriegs- und Handelsflaggen",
[engl: "The historical evolution of those German national flags used
on ships and recognized as German war flags or merchant flags by the naval
nations",
edited by Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven, 1981, based on
an original version of Kapitän zur See a.D. Karl SCHULTZ, all flags on
the poster are painted by E. PASCHKE.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Oct 2007
1) Hamburg since 1270: A plain red pennant, see above, from: Hamburger
Schiffsrecht von 1270.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
2) Hamburg since 1500: A plain red pennant with a white shield shifted
to the hoist, in the shield there is a red castle with an open black gate
and three towers.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
3) Hamburg since 1500: The same as no. 2 (based on Paschke) with one
difference: the castle has two red doorsteps, the castle is the same like
that on the 1568-flag of Hamburg (will be presented in part 2) which is
also based on the paintings of Paschke.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
4) Danzig 1400: A plain red pennant with two white crosses lined up
horizontal and shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
5) Elbing 1424: A white over red bicolor with two white crosses lined
up horizontal and shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
6) Lübeck since 1299: A white over red bicolor.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
7) Riga since 1295: A plain black pennant with a single white cross
shifted to the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
8) Stralsund 1306: A plain red pennant with a white spearhead shifted
to pointing at the hoist.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 Nov 2005
Hansa pennant: It is a horizontal 4-stripes white over red over white
over red pennant. According to Paschke I'll date the flag before 1700.
I believe in the existence of that pennant, because it occurs in the current
coat of arms, which is based on an old seal and according to Paschke there
existed an equal flag version before 1700. I could see variants of that
pennant in various places in the city, being e.g. part of a company flag
and depicted on the Wassertor and the old school-building.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Jan 2007