Schellenberg (Liechtenstein)

Last modified: 2024-08-10 by martin karner
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• Description of the flags
  • Vertical flag, simple stripes
  • Special commemorative flag variant in 1978
• Banner of the arms

See also:

• Subnational flags of Liechstenstein
• Liechtenstein

Description of the flags

• Flag description: four stripes, black-yellow-black-yellow (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85] [jsu73].)
• Flags actually used:
  • vertical flag, simple stripes
  • square flag, banner-of-arms
  • special horizontal flag variant

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 Schellenberg; this official princely photo; and Liechtenstein 1978-1988 — Bilder, Texte und Dokumente. Verlag der Fürstlichen Regierung: Vaduz, 1988: p. 117, 252.
M. Schmöger, 18/29 September 2009

Special commemorative flag variant in 1978

image by M. Schmöger

Paper flags used for the festivities of Prince Francis Joseph’s 70th birthday in 1978, with inscription

70 Geburtstag
S.D. Fürst
Franz Josef II.
Schellenberg
gratuliert

Banner of the arms

image by M. Schmöger

• Arms description (German):
  • Einen in Schwarz, Gold, Schwarz, Gold quergeteilten Schild, das untere Feld mit drei Zinnen bewehrt (Sources: [kra82d] [l9i85].)
  • Dreimal von Schwarz und Gold geteilt, der goldene Schildfuss ist mit drei Zinnen versehen (Sources: [jsu73].)
• Arms blazoning (English): Barry of four of Sable and Or, the base with three embattlements.
• Arms granted: 28 March 1940 by Francis Joseph II, the reigning prince [kra82d] [jsu73]
• Reasons for the arms: colours from the arms of the lords of Schellenberg, the embattlement for their castles (Sources: [l9i85])

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 this photo.

M. Schmöger, 18 September 2009

The arms are gold with a black fortress wall. At the top appears a black stripe. The colours represent the nobles of Schellenberg, and the fortress wall their castle. The arms of Schellenberg were adopted on 28 March, 1940.
Pascal Vagnat, 21 November 1995