List of flags of Luxembourg

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This is a list of flags used in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a country in western Europe. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Luxembourg.

National flag

Flag Date Use Description
1993 - Flag of Luxembourg (Ratio: 3:5) The flag is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and blue. De facto used from 1848, but it was not officially adopted until 1993.
1972 - 1993 Flag of Luxembourg (Ratio: 1:2) The national flag in 1:2 ratio.

Ensign

Flag Date Use Description
1972 - Civil Ensign and Civil Air Ensign of Luxembourg A banner of the coat of arms of Luxembourg. It is made of ten horizontal white and blue stripes with a red lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown over all.

Standard of the Grand Duke

Flag Date Use Description
2001 - Standard of the Grand Duke An orange flag with the middle coat of arms of the Grand Duke.

Cities

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Capital city of Luxembourg
Flag of Betzdorf, Luxembourg
Flag of Diekirch

Historical Flags

Flag Date Use Description
800-888 The Imperial Orilflamme of Charlemagne A 3 pointed green field with 8 golden crosses and 6 flowers.
1242-1443 Flag of The County and Duchy of Luxemburg A banner of the coat of arms of Luxembourg. It is made of ten horizontal white and blue stripes with a red lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown over all.
1443-1556 Flag of The Duchy of Burgundy under Philip the Good A Banner of The Coat of Arms of The Duchy of Burgundy under The House of Valois-Burgundy
1556-1684
1698-1700
Flag of The Seventeen Provinces, The Southern Netherlands and The Spanish Netherlands A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field.
1684-1698
1701-1711
1814-1815
Flag of The Kingdom of France A White Field with several Fleur-de-lis.
1711-1713 Flag of The Electorate of Bavaria A Quartered Banner of Arms. the 1st and 4th quarters, An array of 21 lozenges of blue and white. the 2nd and 3rd quarters are the lion of The Electorate of Palatinate. plus an inescutcheon with a golden orb on a red field in the center.
1713-1795 Flag of The Archduchy of Austria three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and red.
1713-1740 Flag of The Archduchy of Austria A yellow field with a black double headed eagle with a crown on top and carrying the tricolored arms of Austria on his chest.
1713-1795 Flag of The Holy Roman Empire A black double-headed eagle with haloes on a yellow field.
1781-1786 Flag of The Austrian Netherlands A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria.
1789 Flag of The Brabant Revolution A yellow field bordered with red and black triangles and the brabant lion in the center.
1789-1790 Flag of The Brabant Revolution A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, black and yellow.
1795-1814 Flag of The French First Republic and The First French Empire A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 3:2).
1815-1830
1839-1848
Flag of The United Kingdom of the Netherlands and The Kingdom of The Netherlands A horizontal triband of red, white and blue.
1815-1866 Flag of The German Confederation A tricolour, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), red, and gold (bottom).
1830-1831 Flag of the Belgian Revolution A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red.
1831-1839 Flag of The Kingdom of Belgium A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 2:3 ratio.
1848-1914
1918-1940
Flag of Luxembourg
1914-1918 Flag of The German Empire A tricolour, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), white, and red (bottom).
1940-1945 Flag of The 3rd Reich A red field, with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45 degree angle. Disc and swastika are exactly in the centre.

Historical Royal Flags

Flag Date Use Description
1556 Banner of arms of King Charles I
1556 Banner of arms of Emperor Charles V
1556 Banner of arms of Emperor Charles V
1556-1580
1668-1684
1698-1700
Royal Standard or Royal Flag of the House of Habsburg.
1580-1668 Banner of arms of the House of Austria
(with the arms of Portugal).
1580-1668 Royal Standard or Royal Flag of the House of Habsburg. (Inescutcheon of Portugal in the Royal arms)
1668-1684
1698-1700
Banner of arms of the House of Austria (from 1668)
1684-1698
1701-1711
Royal standard of Louis XIV
1804-1814 Imperial standard of Napoléon I
1814-1815 Royal Standard of Louis XVIII
1815-1830
1839-1848
Royal Standard of The Dutch Monarch
1815-1835 Standard of the Emperor Francis
1848-1866 Standard of the Emperor Franz Joseph
1914-1918 German Emperor's Standard

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