Fun With Flags #30 - German State Flags

In this video we take a brief look at the flags of German States!
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[@General.Knowledge]

Which of these flags do you prefer? I don't think anything can beat Bavaria

[@sizanogreen9900]

I personally like the one of Baden-Württemberg with the coat of arms included the most but I might be biased since I am living there;)

[@robbey43]

Schleswig-Holstein's is the best no doubt

[@hussarski5508]

In Germany anything can beat Bavaria, but in Liberia are "better" flags xD

[@JamesBond-ny8bq]

@@hussarski5508 fuck of

[@TimRrstrm]

I just like the flag of Thüringen being the "reveserse" of Hesse's flag 😁

[@Realkeepa-et9vo]

Man, 200 years ago this Video would've gone on for hours :D

[@johnblack8178]

you are sure with this hour? i think it could be more than 5 hours, depends on how deep he goes in each city state :D

[@Irobert1115HD]

nope. back then germany wasnt realy a thing.only idea that was sung about in a song that was basicaly destroyed by the nazis.

[@chillaxo9863]

@@Irobert1115HD EEERRRIIIKKKAAA

[@Irobert1115HD]

@@chillaxo9863 what i ment the song das lied der deutschen.

[@chillaxo9863]

@@Irobert1115HD I know but Erika is das Beste

[@n4ppin]

You forget the 17th Bundesland Mallorca

[@Maxcraft12]

We have shown the world that you don't need weapons to invade and annex territory, you need towels and seniors!

[@jannanos8739]

Lippe

[@hahaha5290]

@@Maxcraft12 unsere geheimewaffe die Socken in sandalen Kanone hast du vergessen

[@Exodon2020]

Once we repaced Jackboots with Socks and Sandals as well as MP40s with filled wallets we were very welcome to invade. Go figure

[@C0reCoding]

@Private117 facepalm

[@JC-DH]

You actually pronounced Mecklenburg-Vorpommern better then some of the other states 😂👌

[@sarah8383]

Mecklenburg has a long 'e'.

[@sarah8383]

@@e.4485 Please look up 'Dehnungs-c'. Some other examples are 'Lübeck', 'Brackel' and 'Kruckel', all with long vowel before 'ck'. The reason is historical orthography.

[@bnzzai4882]

Sarah I can tell you as a german speaker that Mecklenburg has a short e

[@sarah8383]

@@bnzzai4882 You don't have to believe me, just look it up. You are mispronouncing 'Mecklenburg'. That is a bit ironic in this context. Fact is many Germans mispronounce names of places in Germany. Place names are usually older than the current rules of orthography. You find that a lot. 'Soest' is pronounced with a long 'o' and not an 'ö'. 'Duisburg' is pronounced with a long 'ü'. 'Troisdorf' has a long 'o'. And 'Mecklenburg' has a long 'e'. Those are historical spellings that don't conform to modern orthography.

[@tunisiangoldfarmer1508]

@@sarah8383 Iam living here in north-rhine-westphalia and i've never heard someone say Mecklenburg with a long 'e'.

[@ichabodstrange756]

13:50 actually those are just “special edition coins“. Every year another state gets featured on the 2€-coin. The “standard 2€- coin“ in Germany shows the german eagle. Also those coins are of course not coined by the individual states but by the federal government. Great video as always and don't worry about your pronounciation. It's actually pretty good :)

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

Actually, theres 17 states, you forgot to count Mallorca (If a spanish person tells you its part of spain, dont believe them)

[@monde9570]

So true

[@schiarazula]

What about Ibiza ?

[@sergeantsharkseant]

yesterday mallorca today ibiza tomorrow austria(again) next week everything ones ruled by germans in peace times and next year the world sound like a good plan heh? but also i think someone already tried it if i would remember his name

[@DidamDFP]

@@sergeantsharkseant yeah, sounds like a great plan actually, maybe propose it to Mutti? The world might be a better place then tbh

[@lukasschroder7195]

And the 18th Austria. I mean I am a german you are a german. Shoulden't everybody be german?

[@fassbrause0076]

13:47 those do exist, but they are not very common. Most German coins just feature the German eagle.

[@barvdw]

Yeah, it's a special series, two come out each year. There are other commemorative coins minted, also in other EMU states, like the one with the Atomium in Belgium, the coin minted for the Winter Olympics in Turin from Italy, etc.

[@kulturfreund6631]

The V in germanic rooted terms and names is pronounced F Vater (father), vier (four), Vogel (bird), vorüber/vorbei (over), Vetter ((male) cousin), Hannover, Volk (people), Volkswagen, Volksmusik (folk music), Voest Alpine (name of an austrian steel company), Otto von Bismarck, Ludwig van Beethoven .... The V in latin (including french as a romance language) rooted words and names (used in German) are pronounced like an English V (or as a German W) Violett (violet), Victor, Virus, veritabel, Vera, Volatilität (volatility), nervös (nervous), Vitamin (vitamine) P.S.: The Z always is pronounced TS Hohenzollern (royal dynasty), Zoll (toll, customs, duty, inch), Zoo / Zoologischer Garten (zoo), Ziege (goat), Zar (tsar).... TH (like in Thüringen) is never spoken as frikative. The H is silent.

[@linajurgensen4698]

Wish we would learn that in history class in Germany.

[@linajurgensen4698]

Held der Arbeit Ich hab’s nicht in der Grundschule gelernt... Gott sei dank kennt sich mein Vater sehr gut mit Geschichte etc. aus.

[@turkoositerapsidi]

€uroreich.

[@Artaios02]

Uns wurde das in den 70er/80er Jahren auch nicht in der Schule beigebracht. Aber wenn man sich dafür interessiert hat, konnte man sich entsprechende Literatur in jeder Stadtbibliothek kostenlos ausleihen. Außerdem hatten manche Mitschüler*innen diese "Wappenpost"-Schreibblöcke, auf deren Deckblatt alle Flaggen und Wappen der Bundesländer abgebildet waren. (Ich glaube, die sind sogar bis heute erhältlich.)

[@YeeSoest]

Also uns wurde das zumindest GEZEIGT...wahrscheinlich wurd's nie abgefragt und damit sofort wieder vergessen, hm? ^^

[@LinusFeynstein]

Depends all on the teacher and on the interest of the Student. Don’t make the systematic mistake to blame the government and system.

[@spotstate3548]

„Hamburg is my favorite because of its simplicity“ Baden-Württemberg: am i a joke to you

[@Jan_ne]

Mecklenburg- Vorpommern was literally your best pronounciation.

[@marcushyppy]

So true , i thought Württemberg was the worst one, nice video

[@Csakbetksszmok]

Nope, v should be pronounced as f : )

[@General.Knowledge]

I created a Discord! If you want, join here: discordapp.com/invite/uRTAdY9

[@schiggi1988]

The 8th star on the Thuringian flag represents the capital Erfurt. It was a former Prussian area and held by them, after Thuringia became a state Erfurt became the capital, so it became its own star.

[@NicolaW72]

Exactly!

[@NicolaW72]

Erfurt stayed a part of Prussia until 1947 (abolishment of Prussia through the four Allied Victory powers of World War II), so well through the whole Weimar Republic. It only became a part of Thuringia during the years 1947 until 1952 (abolishment of the states in the GDR in 1952) and than since 1990. Erfurt is also only since 1990 the capital of Thuringia, from 1920 until 1952 the capital of Thuringia was Weimar.

[@dr.ludwig]

Fantastic overview and also nice choice of background music^^

[@darfderkevinspielenacc2850]

Hätt nicht gedacht dich hier zu sehen ^^

[@lorindion6836]

For those who are interested: The Flag of Schleswig-Holstein contains the Blue from the Lions of the Coat of Arms from the Former Duchy of Schleswig and the White and Red from the Coat of Arms of the former Duchy of Holstein. The Flag itself was never official since 1848 (cause the two duchies was seperated but ruled from the danish King, Schleswig as Part of Denmark and Holstein as the Duch of Holstein which Was Part of the german confederacy). As 1848 the people of Schleswig and Holstein have rebelled against the danish King they used this flag for their cause, and in the danish language this flag is still called the rebell flag. For those who are verry interested in: In old medieval times, the King of Denmark and Charlemange decided that the northern Part of Germania should be go until the River of Eider. So there was formed the Duchy of Schleswig (northern Part) and Duchy of Holstein (southern Part). Then border conflicts openned up cause the People of Schleswig and Holstein always felled connected and Denmark had interests in Holstein, and the german Emperor sometimes had interests in Schleswig, as in the middle of the 15th Century a treaty was signed. The treaty was mainly about that Schleswig and Holstein should never ever be seperated. There Was formed the Well known sentence (at least in Schleswig-Holstein) "Up eewig ungedeelt" (forever undevided). That has meant the Duchy of Schleswig got a little more Autonomy but Was still under the rule of the danish Kingdom, and the Duchy of Holstein (Part of the Holy Roman Empire) was ruled by the Duch of Holstein which also had to be the danish King. For centuries this was a good treaty, until the german confederacy was formed. Holstein remained Part of the germany in terms of the Confederacy still inder danish rule, but Denmark and the Confederacy maked the Real that Schleswig (mainly habitted by german speaking people) and Holstein has to have been ruled equally. 1848 as german revolutionaries tried to unite the german confederacy to the first reich, Problemes came up. They wanted to give germany a constitution, and Part of it was that all german states had to have an own regional condtitution, therefore also Holstein. But the danish King was not interested in condtitution at all. Since Holstein was not a Main Part of Denmark he agreed to give Holstein a Condtitution. But since Schleswig and Holstein had to be rulled equally also Schleswig (Part of core Denmark) had to get a condtitution too. But that would have meant the danish King agrees to have constituions in the core land of Denmark and would strength Parlaments and liberal forces. So he decided to give holstein the condtitution but not Schleswig, which upsetted Schleswig and Holstein people where they decided to rebell against Denmark with the help of the german reich. The war was lost (also die to the failed Revolution in Germany) and Holstein was connected more to Denmark. 1864 (nobody knows exactly why) the new formed german Confederacy (mainly ruled from Prussia and Austria) decided to fight a war for the german People in Schleswig and Holstein, faughted a short blody war, and Austria got the Duchy of Holstein, Prussia the Duchy of Schleswig. Since Schleswig and Holstein are devided once more (but this time under two german rulers at last) Prussia used the cause to unify Schleswig and Holstein as war cause against Austria (politically the war was to kick Austria out of the german Confederacy so that Prussia remained as Single big Power, the 2nd of 3 steps to the unification of germany). Short Things first: Prussia has won the war, uniteded Schleswig and Holstein to the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein and for the first, Schleswig and Holstein were truely united at last. After the lost first World war, the People of Schleswig got the right to vote weither Schleswig should remain german or go back to Denmark. The upper half votes mainly for Denmark, the lower half voted for Germany. So they divided Schleswig into Northern Schleswig (Part of Denmark with a German minority) and Southern Schleswig (remaining in Germany in the State of Schleswig-Holstein) with a danish minority. The danish Minority has it's own Party, and since they are a recognized minority in germany the danish minority Party has to be represented in all Parlaments were they are able to vote and get voted (actually it is just the State Parlament of Schleswig-Holstein for now, but I have heared they want to take Part of the federal election this year and as soon as they get 1% the danish minority will be represented in the Bundestag xD). Thats enough, hope you have something interesting learned about my Homeland Schleswig-Holstein :D

[@mr.butter1017]

Berlin Bear-lin Coincidence I think not!

[@Leo-uu8du]

It's a slavic word and means 'swamp'

[@wolfmanAl]

It is a coincidence. The name comes from an old slavic word for marsh or swamp, which makes sense since the city was build in a swamp.

[@bastik.3011]

Haha I like the joke as it kinda works in German to "^^

[@hackerino9707]

The ending of berlin "in" is slavic

[@jackrosenthal7757]

Actually not. the bear was chosen as a coat of arms, because the word sounds similar to the city’s name.

[@sel9578]

8:20 just pronounce the v like an f and you're good to go.

[@DSP16569]

Vorpommern -> english "for"+pommern and it's perfect ;-)

[@donjonson1748]

The part about Mecklenburg is a bit too short. The 5 stripes are from the two old Mecklenburg flags blue / yellow / red and the pomeranian blue / white flag. The two bull heads (1219) in the coat of arms stand for Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

[@korneliuskorn8672]

A funfact: in Germany we say that hamburg has the gate to the World and Bremen the Key, due to their flags;)

[@mcandy7895]

Kornelius Korn only people from Hamburg and/or Bremen say that

[@muysli.y1855]

@@mcandy7895 because of Hanseatic League is true

[@korneliuskorn8672]

@@mcandy7895 Ans the Rest doesn't Really matter;)

[@illusionist1872]

Bremen: The Key Hamburg: The Gate Berlin: The Guard -Dog- Bear

[@janhenrik3132]

I'm from Lower Saxony and this is the story I've heard about our coat of arms: Widukind rode out to meet Charlemagne on his black steed. There, he bowed down before him in order to surrender. Out of shock, the horse stood up on its hind legs, turned white and raced into the woods, never to be seen again.

[@sarah8383]

O Widukind hwat hest þu dån.

[@schinderhannesbartelsi9192]

Well I think there is a bit of truth to the Legend. As far as I know the pagans had sacred groves that were inhabited by white horses as they were considered holy to Frey and Freya. So that might be why all three of our tribes ( Westfalen, Engern und Ostfalen) still have them in their coat of arms.

[@luisgroedl]

@@sarah8383 heißt es: O widukind, was hast du getan?

[@brinkiTOgo]

@@luisgroedl ja :)

[@kingbela88]

Things I, as a German, didn’t learn in school: The whole content of this video

[@annikam2735]

If you want a longer video you should also do all the small regions of Germany 😂 most villages have their own historical flags and another second one for their region

[@stevensiegert]

Villages only have coat of arms. Cities have coat of arms and official flags.

[@nomad6-1]

Been in different parts of Germany the last month, I loved to see the subtle difference in culture between lander :)

[@luisdergroe8944]

Just to clear something up: German euro coins have the german eagle on their back, most of them anyway. There are a Limited number of Clubs that are produced to celebrate something special. These "special coins" include a fairly limited number of state specific coins as shown in the video, but there are also coins with motives about the Olympic Games, celebrating our friendship with France or showing famous politicans and former chancellors.

[@theOiOis]

You got it a bit wrong about the coat of arms of Bavaria.The official coat of arms of the Freistaat Bayern is the greater coat of arms and it has the the white and blue one (that you showed) in the middle and it is surrounded by the 4 coats of arms of Oberpfalz (golden lion), Franken (red and white), Niederbayern and Oberbayern (blue panther), and Schwaben (three black lions)

[@Doppelgalgen]

@Private117 Oh yes, it is.

[@ohnenamen2843]

You pronounced Mecklenburg-Vorpommern pretty good.

[@noelblack8159]

Ohne Namen Warte mal was ist dein Name?

[@ohnenamen2843]

Noel Black Für so etwas hatte meine Familie nicht genug Geld😂

[@naconeone4858]

Bayern ist das besser Deutschland

[@ohnenamen2843]

Noname #lol In welcher Hinsicht?

[@tamaurice6961]

@@ohnenamen2843 Nicht zu Deutschland zu gehören. LOL

[@MobySlick]

I'm a german geography student and I can only say: WOW! Fantastically worked out. It even had informations that I'm not familiar with. You have a new follower.

[@ethhics]

Geographen beschreiben nur, tolle Wissenschaft

[@MobySlick]

@@ethhics Geografie heisst ja auch Erdbeschreibung, du Idiot.

[@alixd183]

When you start talking about Berlin the anthem of Baden starts playing in the background 😂 3 minutes too late but that‘s okay, still happy to hear it😂

[@Sthsthsthsth]

3:10 the song is the 'Badnerlied' the song of Baden.

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video! Keep up!!

[@Duececoupe]

Great video! More flags! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

[@lordwilliam01]

Great Work, thumbs up

[@MEChris456]

The westphalian horse actually distinguishes itself from the lower saxon horse by having its tail always pointing upwards instead of downwards.

[@stillx1211]

MEChris456 ist halt n geileres Pferd da kann man nichts machen

[@maxmustermann3162]

Im Prinzip ist es das gleiche Pferd. In Hannover heißt es Welfenross, in Niedersachsen Sachenross und in Westfalen Westfalenpferd, aber alle meinen das gleiche Viech.

[@YukiTheOkami]

vorpommern is pronounced like for pommern Speck(bakon) is pronounced like "shpack" think thats the closest

[@majodas551]

I`m from Lippe and you`re the first person I saw in 8 years of my internet use to ever mention it thanks!!!!

[@steamrunnerOS]

Hey, me too. But the "e" in Lippe is a schwa-sound

[@kalterverwalter4516]

@@steamrunnerOS Lippschwa?

[@steamrunnerOS]

Say "Lippuh"! Like the German word for "lip" 🤣😉

[@pivabiskastudios]

It would be great if you did the Cantons of Switzerland!

[@friederkumpf]

Long Video in that case

[@mr.nicevantroll6556]

No

[@PPfilmemacher]

Actually my history/Geographic teacher in highschool tells us that, the bird in the Brandenburg code of arms mostly wrong pronounced as a eagle is He is a „Rotmilan“ (engl. Red kite (lat. Milvus milvus)) he has a big population in the fields and forests of brandenburg and my homestate Brandenburg use the Milan since hundreds of years as his mascot

[@isuckatnames6078]

Can you do an episode on the flags of the swiss states/cantons?

[@Hellguy02]

Can you make a video about the dutch provinces? That would be awesome. I really want to know more about freislands flag.

[@edsontransports9400]

Really detailed!

[@josefgunter4238]

Your ch is great!

[@Michael-wn4jj]

The Thüringen/Hessen lion originated from House Reginare of Lorraine-Brabant that had a close relation during frankish kingdom era.

[@gilvertlopez1741]

hi i hope you have some extra flags as you mention ! im a flag collector but none of geran state flag yet thanks and interesting information and big thank you !

[@YeeSoest]

Shoutout to my hometown for appearing in a video that's not solely about it ;) 836 until forever, baby ^^ We goin' for 50k, dawg

[@marchawongzurbriggen5285]

U r so great never get bored at all 🙋🏻‍♀️💕🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[@sedail.is.among_us]

I’ve never clicked on a video this fast.

[@danielastadler39]

6:27 thanks for saying this I had no idea

[@gearedphoenix2633]

Mfw I know half of these from EU4

[@angyloller8170]

Great vid. Do italian regions flags plz

[@Leo-uu8du]

Do the federal austrian flags next

[@peterg.8941]

I love the background music 😉.

[@uncagedpinguin3308]

The Baden flag is yellow red yellow

[@wichardbeenken1173]

The 8th star in the Thuringian coat of arms represent Erfurt and some other areas, which when Thuringia was founded in 1920 still belonged to Prussia. After the reconstitution of Thuringia in 1990 they were added to the state and color of arms. The only place free on the shield was just above the lions tail and this resulted in the somehow heraldically irregular pattern of the stars.

[@kabeerthehistorian7445]

Baden Württenemberg’s was the same me as the flag of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria but the Habsburg Monarchy flag had a black coloured two headed eagle in its center. Baden Württenberg’s flag is like the version with a different coat of arms.

[@nhuytran581]

I still love ❤️ your website

[@pasclal4385]

Could you make a video like this with the swiss cantons?

[@macsoylu1076]

The eagle on albanean flag seemed same to me with some europeans flag; eagle on german state or one on your check flag video; are their origin same

[@MegaChaosGelee]

13:46 Those are only special commemorative coins, though. Rather rare to encounter them. Other countries in the Eurozone mint such as well, celebrating their culture and history, with vastly different numbers in circulation (some of them becoming real collector's items). I think every member is allowed to make up to two new commemorative coins each year (used to be only one). In Germany, we have this Bundesländer series, where every year one of the states gets its coin, depicting a famous building from that region. But the Euros with the standard backsides are waaay more common.

[@jazzthrowout265]

You should do one on the Swiss Canton's flags...

[@darth0tator]

I used to think the key in Bremens coat of arms was supposed to be the city key of Hamburg, which they received after rescuing hamburg from a siege

[@bennetsieberichs6822]

The eight Star on the Thuringian Coat of arms represents the last Prussian Thuringian Terretories addet to the Free state of Thuringian.

[@johnblack8178]

franconia, federal state of bavaria has the same flag as hessen :D could you do the same video for the provinces in bavaria?

[@MMadesen]

John Black It has the franconian rake as its symbol

[@sebs.3917]

how can you say we have same flag as hessen :/

[@gerganageorgieva616]

Hi Will you make a video about Estonia 🇪🇪

[@marcelthoma8890]

At 13:00 you are right with the 7 stars. Before 1920 in the historical region of Thuringia, were many rulers, which became sovereign. There were several duchies of the Ernestines, mainly two principalities of Reuß and two principalities of Schwarzburg: 1. Großherzogtum Sachsen(-Weimar) 2. Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen, 3. Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha 4. Herzogtum Sachsen-Altenburg, 5. Fürstentum Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, 6. Fürstentum Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 7. Volksstadt Reuß (which united the two principalities of Reuß-Gera (Younger Line) and Reuß-Greiz (Older Line). The eight star represents the former Prussian territories like Nordhausen, Erfurt, Ziegenrück (Provinz Sachsen) and Schmalkalden (Provinz Hessen). In 1920 Prussia stil existed and so Weimar became the capital of Thuringia, not the bigger and more important Erfurt, which is nower days the capital of Thuringia. One supplement to Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha: Only Gotha joined "Great Thuringia" not Coburg, which became a part of Bayern.

[@marcel2369]

Love the "Hohenzollern" 😂😂

[@ft.238]

8:20 You said it really good!

[@ruth6883]

Hamburg hat das Tor zur Welt und Bremen den schlüssel

[@Julian-vl7vn]

Und wir geben ihn erst raus wenn jemand unsere Schulden übernimmt... bitte... IRGENDWER????????

[@lebens3585]

@@Julian-vl7vn Helft Berlin mit dem Flughafen und die Berliner werden euch auf ewig dankbar sein.

[@Julian-vl7vn]

@@lebens3585 so verzweifelt sind wir dann doch wieder nicht xD

[@Eli20021_]

How about a video about the Swiss Kanton's flags?

[@YeeSoest]

FYI: The 8th star on Thüringen's flag is for the areas added to it after WW2, some of which were Hessen before and some were Sachsen ;)

[@derravensberger9395]

To clarify: The Sachsen here mentioned is not the now Freestate of Saxony, it was the Erfurt district of the former Prussian Province of Saxony. The other two districts of the Province of Saxony (Magdeburg and Merseburg/Halle) became the core of the Federal state of Saxony-Anhalt.

[@dominiquestupfel3229]

Good and interesting video but as an person from Baden I have to say the music in the background wehn you explained Berlin is the anthem of Baden

[@augustinus5877]

Your german pronounciation is rather good, in comparison to other education channels on youtube, which butcher it almost always.

[@schinderhannesbartelsi9192]

He still butchered every word.

[@robrs8631]

Why is it that Germans are always nagging about something? Every single one of you is worse than 8 wives.

[@schinderhannesbartelsi9192]

@@robrs8631 it's called humor... you should grow used to it. Many people have it.

[@robrs8631]

@@schinderhannesbartelsi9192 You are not funny.

[@0800p]

I live in Schleswig-Holstein and we say the Blue on the flag represents the water, the white represents the beach and the red represents the red stone of Helgoland.

[@VolkerGerman]

Interesting video and well informed I think. The eighth star in the coat of arms of Thuringia is there today, because Thuringia was enlarged after WW2. Part of the former Prussian province of Saxony (the rest of which is now part of Saxony-Anhalt) was added to Thuringia, thus eliminating a lot of Prussian enclaves and exclaves in Prussia that Thuringia had, when it was founded after WW1. Your pronunciation of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was quite good. The only little thing: Burg or ...burg is pronounced like 'boorg', in German easily distinguishable from Berg or ...berg (as in Nürnberg), which is prounounced like'bairg'.

[@NicolaW72]

It was especially the city of Erfurt.

[@kalterverwalter4516]

You Pronounce Mecklenburg pretty Well! Schleswig Holstein is another Story xD

[@frakturfreak]

The eighth star in the new coat of arms of Thüringen stands for the former parts of Prussia that were added after WW2. When Thüringen was formed in 1920 large regions inside belonged to the Prussian Province of Saxony, which are today the northern parts of Saxony-Anhalt and Thüringen.

[@nwornislow9362]

Small correction on Bavaria: The Bavarian coat of arms is actually a fusion of the coat of arms of Frankonia, Swabia, Bavaria and Oberpfalz with the Wittelsbach pattern in the middle. (I believe you just showed the Wittelsbach Version or a small coat of arms) Apart from that it is commonly assumed that white and blue refer to the colours of the sky (The Bavarian national anthem contains a line "And preserve for us, the colours of our sky; white and blue")

[@kalterverwalter4516]

Na is the old CoA of the House of Bogen. The Wittelsbacher saw it thougt wow nice and took it.

[@brunoir283]

now why are the flags or coats of arms of trier and lorraine inside the flag of Saarland? they aren't part of that region? that's some information i would have liked to gain from a fun with flags video! :D

[@goofyrockz356]

What also might be interesting is the fact that there is a 'hidden' bundesland in Germany called Franconia, it's located in northern bavaria but does not really identify itself as bavarian. It therefore also has its own flag which is red & white. If all former franconian regions in germany would be their own federal state Franconia would be the seventh largest Bundesland in Germany.

[@chrishieke1261]

Well ... Franken isn't that special in that regard. Most of the newer states have more than one identity (Baden/Württemberg/Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; Mecklenburg/Vorpommern; Rheinland/Westfalen).

[@goofyrockz356]

@@chrishieke1261 They are all treated as equals, hence they make up a part of the name. Franconia however got simply absorbed by Bavaria.

[@pcpapadopoulos]

Please make a video with the Greek city-states flags. Macedonia, Thrace, Athens, Sparta, Pontus, Ionia, Cappadocia, Epirus, Crete, Naxos and maybe Cyprus, as back then it was Greek

[@corvus1768]

No, there are special prints with for every state when there's an anniversary or something similar. Many European countries and the EU do those special prints.

[@Sek_Man]

You should do a video about the regions of Sweden's flags

[@almophant1673]

The eighth star on the coat of arms of Thuringia represents the parts of Thuringia that were previously part of Prussia or Hesse. After WW2 some parts of Prussia were incorporated into Thuringia. Previous attempts to do this failed because of Prussian refused to give up the Land. Erfurt for example was part of Prussia until 1945.

[@volkerwendt3061]

No, sorry, simply because there were 8: Als Thüringische Staaten werden die folgenden deutschen Gliedstaaten des Deutschen Reiches bezeichnet: Das Großherzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (amtliche Bezeichnung seit 1903 Großherzogtum Sachsen) Die Herzogtümer Sachsen-Altenburg, Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha und Sachsen-Meiningen Die Fürstentümer Reuß älterer Linie, Reuß jüngerer Linie, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt und Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Quote from Wikipedia.

[@hannesmayer3716]

Almophan vi Brittania is correct. The coat of arms of Thuringia in the times of the Weimarer Republik showed seven silver stars on a red field. The eighth star were added after the unification with the former Prussian parts of Thuringia in 1945. The both parts of Reuß (elder and junior line) were united befor the unification of all Thuringian states in 1920, so they were counted as one.

[@almophant1673]

@@volkerwendt3061 The eighth star still represents the Prussian parts of Thuringia. Im Juli 1945 erhielt Thüringen sein nunmehr drittes Hoheitszeichen, einen goldenen Löwen auf rotem Grund, umgeben von jetzt acht silbernen Sternen. Der neu aufgenommene Stern symbolisierte jene Gebiete des preußischen Thüringen - der 1944 aus der Provinz Sachsen ausgegliederte Regierungsbezirk Erfurt einschließlich des seit diesem Zeitpunkt zugehörigen Kreises Herrschaft Schmalkalden - die im Sommer 1945 in das Land integriert werden konnten. Quote Wikipedia. The article is called Thüringer_Landeswappen. (The English Version doesn't mention the eighth star specifically. It only says that the eight stars represent the former Divisions of Thuringia and which parts are represented by the first seven stars.)

[@frankb3347]

You didn't do the full coat of arms of Bavaria? This video makes it seems like Franconia is just a minor region of Baden-Württemberg. ;_;

[@roelantverhoeven371]

now do one of the province flags of the netherlands and Belgium, some interesting ones there too :D

[@thorstenfinke2751]

Thuringia had 7 stars in their old flag (Weimar Republic), because it was made up from the 7 former monarchies. But Prussia had terretories sprinkled in. After 1990 when the State of Thuringia reformed the former prussian terretories became the 8th star.

[@eliaskonrad4375]

Todays Flag of Thuringia has 8 Stars because of the prussian district of Erfurt which was incooperated into the state after ww2. The other stars are standing for the 7 duchies of this region, which have existed until 1918, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, Sachsen-Altenburg, Sachsen-Meiningen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Reuß jüngerer Linie and Reuß älterer Linie.

[@wommyu]

Can you do old germany 1871 ?

[@the_gambler985]

Great idea

[@MuunNii]

The Bavarian coat of arms is slightly different though, sad you didnt show it in there. Missed an opportunity to talk about the Bavarian states of swabia (linguistically tied to swabian part of Baden Württemberg) and the franconia (

[@untergehermuc]

No one is interested in such shenanigans. Upper Bavaria is the only interesting part! ;P

[@henner645]

the horse on the coat of arms of lower saxony and westphalia is the same.

[@ferrisdunkel5516]

The right part of the code of arms of Schleswig-Holstein is stolen from the code of arms of my home region, Schaumburg, Lower Saxony. This is due to the historic reach of the "Grafschaft Schaumburg-(Lippe)" (Grafschaft=shire) (They fused with Lippe approximately 1640)

[@CEKROM]

Austria would be a nice next episode =D

[@thealmightylorper]

Austria doesn't exist

[@Si_fly]

Mallorca is missing here.

[@kabeerthehistorian7445]

Bavaria flag is like the flag of San Marino 🇸🇲 but with a different coat of arms

[@TheGogeta222]

But Bavaria is older^^

[@sebs.3917]

@@TheGogeta222nah. san marino is made 300 a.d. around. bayern 555 a.d.

[@TheGogeta222]

@@sebs.3917 I mean the usaiof the colour

[@NicolaW72]

Don´t tell it in Bavaria - the people there wouldn´t believe it... :-)))

[@netherblazeaka.mlgretard2910]

I like how you say you'll mispronounce "Mecklenburg Vorpommern" the most and then you pronounce the most accuratly xD

[@tfl_trnz218]

You didn't pronounce "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" wrong, that sounded really good! :)

[@shiniya]

as german my I think the coats of arms are in general more prominent than the flags XD I lived in Lower Saxony Saxony-Anhalt and just knew about the coat of arms. also I never saw a German euro with another motive than the eagle XD that probably are just special editions of the coins

[@untergehermuc]

Then you are a) very young or b) very ignorant…

[@shiniya]

untergehermuc have you colored the coat of arms in elementary school but never get shown the flag? isn't it normal than to not know the flag if nobody normally really use it? and in general that isn't in important anyway. there are more important things

[@SirMilone]

I lived near Bremen for many years and visited often, but never saw the flag potrait in the video, always saw just the coat of arms on flags XD. In my opinon anyway the better option.

[@Federalissimo]

The first part of Mecklenburg Vorpommern is the part which u said right (As an non german speaker)

[@sanjaklasic9100]

Love you

[@Kampi69]

Nice Background music

[@chrishieke1261]

Nicely done! The coat of arms of Thüringen has 8 stars because the 'recreated' (1990) state of Thüringen consists of 8 former states. You have the ones that formed the first state of Thüringen (1920) ... Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Sachsen-Gotha, Sachsen-Meiningen, Sachsen-Altenburg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the 'Volksstaat Reuß' (which was an amalgamtion of Reuß jüngere Line and Reuß ältere Linie) plus the former Prussian province of Erfurt - the final and eighth star. Erfurt was still part of Prussia when Thüringen was first formed and when the state of Prussia ceased to exist, the province of Erfurt was integrated into a 'Bezirk' (the GDR/"East Germany" abolished the federal states). Only in 1990 the former province of Erfurt was finely joint to the rest of Thüringen.