Flag of Rhineland-Palatinate

The flag counts as well as the country's coat of arms since 1948 to the emblems of Rhineland -Palatinate and also serves as State service flag.

The state coat of arms is placed halfway up the red horizontal stripe across the German tricolor and is located in the upper corner of the bar. The flag is used by authorities and citizens alike and usually hoisted in its capacity as State service flag next to the flag of Germany and the European Union.

The colors can be a part derived from the colors of the country's coat of arms. Secondly, they characterize the state of Rhineland -Palatinate as a federal state and at the same time remember the fact that the democratic tradition of the German colors were conducted after the Hambach Festival on May 27, 1832, the black-red- gold colors for the first time at a great mass meeting. An original flag of that time is now at the Plenary Hall of the Landtag of Rhineland -Palatinate in the German House of Mainz.

For this reason, the coat of arms is in the upper canton and not, as with the flags of the Saarland and Lower Saxony in the middle.

Use as a coffin ceiling

The Flag of Rhineland -Palatinate is used at state funerals as pall. It is a special type of the flag in the country's coat of arms is oversized covered on all three strips. It was last used during the state funeral for Carl -Ludwig Wagner in summer 2012.