The modern German black-red-gold tricolour flag’s first appearance anywhere in a German-ethnicity sovereign state, within what today comprises Germany, occurred in 1778 as the state flag of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, a defunct principality in the modern state’s borders.
Some reordering of the Thuringian states occurred during the German Mediatisation from 1795 to 1814, and the territory was included within the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine organized in 1806. The 1815 Congress of Vienna confirmed these changes and the Thuringian states’ inclusion in the German Confederation; the Kingdom of Prussia also acquired some Thuringian territory and administered it within the Province of Saxony. The Thuringian duchies which became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany were Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the two principalities of Reuss Elder Line and Reuss Younger Line.
Altenstein Castle, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Greifenstein, Blankenburg, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Blankenburg, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Ciriaxbourg, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Ehrenburg, Coburg, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Town hall, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Friedrichrhoda, from Alexanderstrasse, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Friedrichrhoda, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Foxtower, Jena, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Leuchtenburg, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Kyffhauser and Monument from Gitenkopf, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Schulpforta, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
Goethe’s House, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany (1890s)
