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# Wien (Austria)

## Vienna

Last modified: 2026-05-09 by martin karner
Keywords: wien | vienna | cross (white) | land | landesfarben | state flag | state service flag | municipality: austria | bicolour: red-white |
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image by Jan Oskar Engene | image by Željko Heimer
(civil flag) adopted 1946 | (state service flag)

- Status of Vienna
- Discussion on the Flag
- Coat of Arms
- Districts of Vienna (Bezirke)

See also:

- The Vienna Flag Riot
- Kugelmugel (Micronation)
- Swiss Shooting Society Vienna
- Austrian Municipalities
- Austrian States (Länder)
- Austrohungarian State Colours (Landesfarben)
- Austria
- Wiener Wappen (geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at, German)

## Status of Vienna

Wien (Vienna) is a state (Land) of the Republik Österreich, and at the same time it has municipal status.
M. Schmöger, 17 August 2003

## Discussion on the Flag

Should there be narrow black lines outside the white cross on the arms of Vienna? The illustration in Diem's (1995) book Die Symbole Österreichs [die95] is large, and lines are clearly visible. In other books the pictures are smaller, and it is difficult to tell whether they are actually part of the flag.
Jan Oskar Engene, 11 April 1996

It seems unheraldic, and all other cases of Austrian flags hold to heraldic rules (cf. Kärnten's nice example of dividing yellow and white with red).
Željko Heimer, 12 April 1996

I saw the Austrian prime minister in TV with some flags behind him. There were clearly those of the European Union, Austria and Styria. I guess the fourth was Vienna's, but unlike the ones shown on FOTW. This was (I believe) a banner of the Viennese Arms. Certainly with the inner black fimbriation, by the way. I only caught a glimpse, so I may be wrong, but I am quite sure what I saw was a large cross and not just a coat-of-arms on a flag.
Santiago Dotor, 5 July 2000

## Coat of Arms

images by Peter Diem

Gules a Latin cross throughout surmounted by a further Latin cross couped of the Same fimbriated Sable.
Christopher Southworth

White cross in red. When making the flag and arms law in 1998, the authorities of Vienna insisted on the black lines in what they described as a "Gothic" shield.
Peter Diem, 16 August 2002

## Districts of Vienna (Bezirke)

As far as I know, Wien districts have only coats of arms, but not own flags.
M. Schmöger, 3 December 2005