Schwarz-Rot-Gold

Today, 100 years ago, following the proclamation of the Weimar Constitution, the National Assembly declared the combination of black, red, and gold as the German national flag.

Red Baron wrote about the German colors before and would simply like to remind you that Schwarz-rot-gold was flown for the first time in 1832, when a patriotic crowd marched from the town of Neustadt to Hambach Castle.

A Neustadt native, Johann Philipp Abresch, carried the Tricolor with the inscription "Germany's rebirth". The marchers demonstrated for freedom of the press and assembly and demanded German unity, a confederate European republic, and equal rights for women!!

The ravages of time gnawed on the gold. 

The Urfahne (original flag) was made from gold threads rather than dark yellow cloth. It is kept as a national shrine and on display at Hambach Castle.

Next, the colors of freedom for the 1848/49 revolutionaries were black, red, and gold, although their sequence was still a matter of chance at the time.

Invitation to stitch flags in the order Gold., Roth., and Schwarz.
 For a patriotic rally in Freiburg on March 23, 1848

Unlike in the States, Germans are still somewhat shy about showing "their colors," but they should be reminded that black-red-gold never stands for nationalism but for a united, free, and democratic Germany.

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