Flag of Saxony-Anhalt

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Saxony-Anhalt


Landesflagge
Use	Civil and state flag
Proportion	3:5
Adopted	30 January 1991 (Changed in 2017 to avoid confusion with Baden-Wurttemberg)

The flag of Saxony-Anhalt is a yellow and black bi-color, with the state's coat of arms centered on the flag.

History

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Black and yellow were the colors of the Prussian Province of Saxony and the pre-1952 State of Saxony-Anhalt, but on 29 January 1991 the traditional order of the colors was reversed to distinguish the flag from the black-over-yellow bi-color of Baden-Württemberg. This was then enshrined in the state constitution of 17 July 1992, where Article 1 deals with the state symbols.

From 1991 to 2017, the flag had two major variants: a plain bi-color as the civil flag and the current flag as the state flag.^[1]

Anhalt-Bernburg (1252–1468, 1603–1863)
Duchy of Anhalt (1806–1918)
Former civil flag of Saxony-Anhalt until 5 April 2017.

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^ Hoheitszeichengesetz §3

v t e Flags of Germany
National	Flag of Germany
States	Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia
Districts	Berlin Bremen Hamburg
Municipalities	Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia
Historical and cultural	Alsace Baden Franconia Frisia Masuria Mecklenburg Prussia Silesia and Lower Silesia Upper Silesia Western Pomerania German Empire Nazi Germany East Germany Wirmer Flag Hanseatic flags

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