Flag of Hamburg (Die Hamburgische Landesflagge) - Germany - Municipal Flags on Waymarking.com

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany, the thirteenth largest German state, and the sixth-largest city in the European Union.
The city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808. The castle was built on rocky terrain in a marsh between the River Alster and the River Elbe as a defence against Slavic incursion. The castle was named Hammaburg, burg meaning castle or fort. It is probable that just the castle should be depicted on the city flag, city coat-of-the-arms and on the city seal. Just the oldest seal with the castle is thought to date from 1241. The first flag featuring the current form was in the mid-16th century, although this was most probably a red field, a white escutcheon and red castle. After about 1623, the escutcheon began to be omitted, leaving a red castle on white or a white castle on red. It was only in 1751 that the white castle on red was decreed as the flag of Hamburg.
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The presented civil flag of Hamburg city is located on the tower of pictoresque Hamburg's neo-Renaissance town hall.

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