Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Flag of Austria-Hungary.svg
There had been various discussions on de-WP and en-WP already since 2004 that led to the conclusion a single national flag for Austria-Hungary did not exist. Austria and Hungary had their national flags on their own (black-yellow in Austria and red-white-green with the royal coat of arms in Hungary). Common Austrian-Hungarian flags were only in use for common duties. That means there had been a war flag for the military (k.u.k. Armee) and a common merchant flag (or civil ensign) used by merchant vessels. However the rest of the state duties has been administered separately by both Austria and Hungary and so a single national flag was not in use, and simply not needed. This image shown here depicts the Austrian-Hungarian merchant flag without the Austrian and Hungarian coats of arms. Such a flag did not exist but some flag lexicons on the internet started to present such a flag as a national Austrian-Hungarian flag some years ago, maybe because their maintainers did not know better. So you can regard this flag as a hoax. You won't find this in a printed flag lexicon. So this image should be deleted. --AlexF 11:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- I agree, this flag should be deleted. Rather weird to see this hoax in so many Wikipedia articles. Gugganij 11:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Agree, per above comments. —dima/s-ko/ 04:24, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- Before you go about this, at least consider this information found on the Flags of the World site:
- "This was the joint Austro-Hungarian flag brought in sometime after the 1867 "Ausgleich" or "Compromise", which gave Hungary home rule. The version I'm familiar with was the joint naval ensign which has crowned shields for Austria (red-white-red) and Hungary (traditional Hungarian arms) on the white stripe(s). Presumably at some point the black-over-yellow of "Cisleithania" was dropped for the red-white-red once more.
- Roy Stilling, 1 December 1995
- The year 1867 is the year when the Habsburg Empire was, by Compromise, dualized into Austria-Hungary. The flag was not actually adopted until two years later (1869), and used until 1918."
- This is no proof of existence of a common Austrian-Hungarian national flag. As far as I see does the author of these lines only refer to the (civil) naval ensign and remarks that the only version he knows about of a flag of this colour scheme is the flag with the two coats of arms of Austria and Hungary. That would be indeed the merchant flag that was introduced in 1869. However the coats of arms are missing here. --AlexF 03:29, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- What`s with this resource: http://www.flaggenlexikon.de/foest3.htm ??? -leon22 19:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Deleted -- Bryan (talk to me) 09:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
