Ruggell (Liechtenstein)

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• Description of the flags
  • Vertical flag, simple stripes
  • Vertical flag, stripes and arms
  • Banner of the arms
• Horizontally striped design

• Liechtenstein
• Subnational Flags of Liechtenstein

Description of the flags

• Flag description: three stripes, blue-yellow-red (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73])
• Flags actually used:
  • vertical flag, simple stripes
  • vertical flag, stripes with banner-of-arms in the head
  • square flag, banner-of-arms

Vertical flag, simple stripes

image by M. Schmöger

Vertical flag, simple stripes. Sources for this flag design: my own observations and photos, 15 August 2009, at Vaduz castle and Ruggell.
M. Schmöger, 17 September 2009

Vertical flag, stripes and arms

image by M. Schmöger

Vertical flag, stripes with banner-of-arms in the head. Sources for this flag design: my own observations and photos, on 15 August 2009, at Vaduz castle and Ruggell; Liechtenstein 1978–1988 – Bilder, Texte und Dokumente. Verlag der Fürstlichen Regierung: Vaduz, 1988: p. 117; and photo (source)
M. Schmöger, 17/29 September 2009

Banner of the arms

image by M. Schmöger

• Arms description (German):
  • Ein Schild mit rotem Grund, im Schildfuss blaues silberbordiertes Flussband, darüber eine aufrechte goldene Ähre mit zwei Blättern (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85].)
  • In Rot aus einem erniedrigten, beiderseits mit silbernem Faden begrenzten, blauen Querfluss eine goldene Kornähre mit zwei Blättern wachsend (Sources: [jsu73].)
• Arms blazoning (English): Gules, a two-leafed corn ear Or issuant from a bar abased wavy Azure fimbriated Argent.
• Arms granted: by Francis Joseph II, the reigning prince, in August 1956 (Kranz [kra82d] says August 16th while Jäger-Sunstenau [jsu73] says August 5th)
• Reasons for the arms: the ear for the agricultural victory over the Rhine, that is symbolized by the bar wavy; the colours blue and red are the national ones (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73])

Square flag, banner-of-arms. Source for this flag design: Liechtenstein 1978–1988 – Bilder, Texte und Dokumente. Verlag der Fürstlichen Regierung, Vaduz 1988: p. 274; and these two photos.

M. Schmöger, 17 September 2009

Horizontally striped design

(Fanciful design!)

image by António Martins, 15 March 2012

There is an image of the letter-of-arms showing a drawing of the flag, this being a rather ancient-looking staff with a long horizontal flag with a ratio of about 1:3 (stripes from top to bottom blue-yellow-red). This is merely a nice drawing and certainly never used like that.
M. Schmöger, 17 September 2009