Luxembourg (Province, Belgium)

Luxemburg

Last modified: 2004-02-28 by ivan sache
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by Mark Sensen

• Official flag
• Banner of arms (unofficial)
• Provincial colours (unofficial)
• Provincial Governor's honorary flag
• Provincial Governor's car flag

See also:

• Belgium
• Belgium: Administrative divisions
• Wallonia
• Municipal flags in the province of Luxembourg
• Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Other links:

• Official provincial website, showing the arms used in the above image.

Official flag

The flag of the province of Luxembourg is the flag of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg red over white over blue, with in over the blue and white part the coat of arms, surmounted by a ducal hat. The arms are a red lion rampant, two-tailed, yellow nails, tongue, golden crown, background ten pieces of blue and white.

Source: a phone call with Michel Lupant.

Filip Van Laenen, 27 March 1997

Banner of arms (unofficial)

from the Shipmate site, with permission

Lion rampant gules, crowned, nailed and tongued or, on six fesses azure on silver.

Filip van Laenen

The arms of the Belgian province of Luxemburg are identical to those of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.

Zeljko Heimer, 19 September 1995

Provincial colours

The colours were taken from the arms. These colours were not fixed. The sources are:

• A chart called Vlaggen der Belgische Provincies - Drapeaux des Provinces Belges (Flags of the Belgian Provinces). This is not dated, but to judge from the font face used, it is from the 1920s or 1930s.
• Some Dutch atlases and books about the provinces show another set, published by Rudi Koot in Vexilla Nostra [vxn] #185 (1993) p. 32-33

by Mark Sensen

Provincial Governor's honorary flag

by Mark Sensen

I have some xerox copies of sheets which seam to come from a book (bilingual Dutch and French) containing regulations (for the Navy maybe?). It contains a sheet with the honorary flags of the governors of the provinces, adopted by Order in Council of 28 October 1936.
It includes a construction sheet. The flags are 150x150 cm. Each stripe is 50 cm. The shields are 43.5 cm. wide and 50 cm. high excluding 3.75 cm for the point of the shield. The shields are in the center of the black stripe.

Mark Sensen, 27 January 2001

Provincial Governor's car flag

by Jorge Hurtado

Source: M. Lupant in Gaceta de Banderas [gdb] #65, November 2000