Flag#Flagpoles

A flagpole or flagpole is a pole made of wood, aluminum, fiberglass, plastic, and in rare cases made ​​of steel, are hoisted on the banners and flags. The flag is pulled on a rope over a pulley in the air.

General

A higher mast is a flag in a group of flags a higher status, which is why in most countries, when multiple flags are set side by side, the focus is on an equal level. Other states prefer the own flag and highlight it with a taller mast. A generally accepted deviation from the equality of the height is carried out at award ceremony for athletes. The flags are then set according to the placement of the athlete of the respective nation, at different heights.

Also, the order of the poles for individual flags can be specified by regulations. A distinction is made, for example, flags of international and supranational organizations such as the European Union or NATO, its own national flag, national flags, and other sub-national flags. As a particularly honorable course is either the center or (from the perspective of the viewer ) first position from the left. Before the United Nations headquarters in New York, the flags of the member countries to poles in alphabetical order are set (one level ).

Rods which are mounted diagonally or horizontally on buildings, are called flag poles. For them, the same rules apply as to arrangement as in the free-standing masts.

Record highs above 100 m height

Flag masts in Germany

In Germany, flagpoles usually find in front of public buildings. If there are enough poles exist, they show according to the regulations in force from left to right (from the viewer's perspective ) Europe the flag, the German flag, the national flag and the town flag. National flags of other states and territories are set before the German flag when needed.

Prior corporate offices often the corporate flag, occasionally shown together with the national flag. Especially in allotments use private flagpoles with different flags. There are no legal requirements, who can use a mast.

While it today no specific rules concerning the coloring of the masts eg in Germany in hoisting the national flag there, this was regulated partly different in the past. At the beginning of the period of National Socialism were flagpoles usually made ​​of wood. As of 1933, many were provided with a black, white and red paint. Due to the weather the mast was doing but often unsightly quickly, so had to be canceled as of October 1934 monochrome "rich own " flag poles. By a decree of the Reich Ministry of the Interior of 26 October 1934, arranged so that masts on buildings in the colors black or gray and in public places, etc. are to be deleted gardens light gray or white. Against the attachment of a black -white-red color ring below the head was " nothing wrong with it, as soon as a new coat of paint is necessary."