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![[Civil and State Flag 1815-1935 (Saxony, Germany)]](../images/d/de-sn815.gif)
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Image by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 16th June 1815, readopted 1920, abolished 1935, readopted 1991
2:3 Image by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 16th June 1815, readopted 1920, abolished 1935, readopted 1991
Horizontal bicolor white-green. Officially adopted 1815, readopted 1920 and 1991.
Norman Martin, March 1998
On 16th June 1815 the then black over yellow colours of the flag were changed into white over green. Source: Ströhl 1897.
Theo van der Zalm, 14 August 2000
The white-green bicolour of Saxony was adopted by a royal decree on 16 June 1815. These colours already had some tradition in Saxony. The reason for not adopting yellow-black, the armorial tinctures of Saxony, was that Austria, which at the time was Saxony's closest neighbour to the south, used a bicolour of those colours (source: Schurdel 1995 pp. 182-183).
Elias Granqvist, 16 February 2001
![[Civil and State Flag before 1815 (Saxony, Germany)]](../images/d/de-sn_e.gif)
2:3 Image by Santiago Dotor
Flag abolished 16th June 1815, readopted for the Prussian Province of Saxony 1884
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