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

Reported 1695, 1805, 1848 and 1862

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

Description

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

The German editors of Norie and Hobbs 1971 added two charts (which were not originally in Norie and Hobbs 1848) with German flags that were important over time. One of them is no. 21, Stralsund 1329, as the one in Smith 1975, p. 115. The arrowheads are in the hoist, palewise, pointing hoistward.

Peter Hans van der Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001

Hanging Flag 14th Century

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

The German editors of Norie and Hobbs 1971 added two charts (which were not originally in Norie and Hobbs 1848) with German flags that were important over time. One of them is no. 27, Flüger: Stralsund 1306, as the above flag but arrow-head hoistward, and extended horizontally to a long flying flag. I believe a Flüger is a pennant of which the part near the hoist fixed to a piece of wood, and that is indeed how these are pictured in Norie and Hobbs 1971.

Peter Hans van der Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001