Fun With Flags #10 - Austrian Flag
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Hey everybody! Welcome back to Fun With Flags.
Today, on episode #10, we're going to talk about the history and meaning of the Austrian flag.
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Background Music:
Austrian Empire National Anthem (Instrumental)
Austrian National Anthem (Instrumental)
Austro-Hungarian National Anthem (Instrumental)
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Important Notice About The "German Anthem" in the background music:
Throughout the video, amongst others, the Austro-Hungarian National Anthem is playing.
This sounds very similar to the current German Anthem.
"Because it follows exactly the same tune. This tune was originally written in 1797 by an Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn, to provide music to go with the poe Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (English: God Save Emperor Franz) by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.
The lyrics of Haschka’s poem, set to Haydn’s tune, would become the Austro-Hungarian national anthem. In 1841, the poet August Heinrich Hoffmann, who was born in what is now Germany, wrote the lyrics to the Deutschlandlied (the modern German anthem), in support of pan-Germanism.
This would eventually beomce the German national anthem after WW1.
In short, Austria had it first and Germany copied it."
Source: www.quora.com/Why-does-Austria-Hungarys-national-anthem- seem-to-follow-the-exact-same-tune-as-the-anthem-of-modern-day-Germany
That's because the "german anthem" is based upon a melody written for the austrian emperor
General Knowledge what is your nationality?
Can you do the Colombian flag next?
Mat0Man *German Emperor, Austrians are Germans
The most Austrians think that there are Austrians (not Germans!).
the austrian flag or to be precise, the design of a red, white, red bicolored flag dates back to the reign of the house of babenberg. the babenbergers ruled as counts/dukes of ostarichi (austria) from 976 to 1246, and it is therefor one of the oldest flaggs in europe, next to, for example the flag of denmark.
according to a common legend, the then duke of austria, Leopold V., who participated in the crusades, layed off his belt after a battle, the only place on this tunic that remained white was under hits belt, the rest was soaked in blood.
hope that this information is a bit of a help,
the information since the reign of the habsburg dynastie is quite good i think.
greetings from austria.
@Food for thought The legend is just a Legend, because actually the first ones to use the red white red were the noble family of "Eppenstein" (located in todays Styria) It was their Banner of Arms. From them the "Traungauer" family inherited it, from which the Babenberger dynasty inherited it, from which the Habsburgs inherited it. (every time because the former family went extinct, and the later inherited their land etc.)
Link: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppensteiner
@@nirfz it's sad the he didn't mention it in the video, but instead spreaded some misinformation :(
Cant believe how he missed that, and thought austria just existed after the fall of the hre... incredibly bad research on his part...
Austria started with the Babenburg family, the Habsburg family came afterwards.
Yep he forgot the Magraviate of Austria too...
I LOVE how you included the former austo-hungarian anthem and our current anthem. great work!
I think that anthem is more like of Germany.
@@deepachauhan949 yeah nowadays, but it used to be the Emporor Anthem, composed for the Habsburgs by Joseph Haydn ("Emporor Quartet"). Unfortunately (from my point of view) it's not our anthem anymore, the melody is in my opinion way more beautiful than our nowadays anthem, supposedly composed by Mozart (it was probably composed by a Freemasonry colleague of Mozart)... but our nowadays' anthem is alright, I guess^^
And was used as some sort of "Anthem" for the Habsburg Empire, the lyrics were adapted to the current reigning king (just like in UK nowadays), so e.g. people would sing "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser usw." ("May god protect Franz, our Emporor") under Franz' I. reign.
So glad I found this, I really wanna go teach in Austria, and become a citizen one day! This will greatly help. Thank you!
4th hardest county to migrate to
4:57 Eagle: **combines hammer and sickle together**
Stalin: now thats _our_ eagle
"The Socialism is strong with this one."
"Size matters not. Look at Austria. Judge them by their size, do you?"
Apparently, the Bolsheviks of Russia and the republicans of Austria followed similar design cues (even if communism did not have much influence over Austrian politics, apart from the joint US-French-British-Soviet occupation of Austria)!
Yeah, Austria! My homecountry!
Österreich wird auf UA-cam so selten erwähnt...😅😢 Dabei samma so geil...
So two things;
As noted below (but admittedly a bit incorrectly) by a couple of folks, the well-known "red bars on white background" was carried by the Babenberg dynasty who were margraves and later on, dukes until 1156 when Emperor Frederic I Barbarossa decided to remove the margraviety of Austria (which back then mostly covered what are today the Bundesländer of Upper and Lower Austria) and formed it into a Duchy, the Duchy of Austria. Thus, the Austria that became a big player in the middle ages was sorta started by the Babenbergs, not the Habsburgs, though they exponentially increased the region's might.
As for the Flag per se, the flag itself could be traced back to the Carinthian duke Adalbero, a member of the duchal family of Eppenstein, who might have worn the so-called Bindenschild earlier than the Babenbergs and then, when the Eppensteins died out, bequeathed the rights to the Eppenstein Coats of Armor to the Traungaus/Otakars who then in turn (when they died out in 1192) bequeathed their Coats of Arm, the aforementioned "red bars on white background" to the Babenbergs. They then bequeathed the CoA to the Habsburgs when they took over Austria, Styria etc. in 1278, after a short intermezzo when the Bohemian Premyslids ruled these lands.
Thank you
Hi, just feel I should add one small detail about the coat of arms: It is not true, that the coat of arms used between 1918 and 1933/34 is identical to the current one. This can even be seen in the video, where when comparing the coat in 2:51 (1st Republic of Austria) and in 4:54 (2nd republic), where the additional feature of the broken chains on the eagles' legs is added symbolizing the liberation of Austria.
Also, it's spelled Anschluss, not Anchluss ;)
Cool video btw
You writed Anchlus but its called Anschluss ^^
Switzerland Money I wanted to write it :(
Im terrible sorry im not from England or anywhere else where you speak english you must know i am from Switzerland. ^^
Switzerland Money I've been to Switzerland recently and it was amazing ^^
Wer ist hier deutsch sprachig??
Hier drüben!
Österreich is just beautiful and the people are nice too not like the cold Germans. I'm originally from Macedonia but was born in Vienna and I'm very happy about that. Austria got many ethnicities. Like people from every Yugoslavian state, Austrians and turks. 🇦🇹💪
@Großösterreichisches Reich exactly, Vienna had back than over 2 million citizens after ww1 Vienna got smaller. Note Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia were part of the empire.
One mistake I noticed: the crown on the eagle's head represents republicanism and not the middle class (this is a common misconception even here in Austria)
You are wrong, it's not a common misconception but instead a fact that the "Mauerkrone" (the crown) sybolices the bourgeoisie. Da ich davon aus gehe, dass du deutsch beherrscht: Im “Gesetz vom 1. Mai 1945 über Wappen, Farben, Siegel und Embleme der Republik (Wappengesetz), BGBl. 7/1945, wurde im Artikel 1 festgelegt: “Die Republik Österreich führt das mit Gesetz vom 8. Mai 1919, St.G.Bl.Nr. 257 eingeführte Staatswappen, das die Zusammenarbeit der wichtigsten werktätigen Schichten: der Arbeiterschaft durch das Symbol des Hammers, der Bauernschaft durch das Symbol der Sichel und des Bürgertums durch das Symbol der den Adlerkopf schmückenden Stadtmauerkrone, versinnbildlicht, wieder ein. Dieses Wappen wird zur Erinnerung an die Wiederringung der Unabhängigkeit Österreichs und den Wiederaufbau des Staatswesens im Jahre 1945 dadurch ergänzt, daß eine gesprengte Eisenkette die beiden Fänge des Adlers umschließt.” www.demokratiezentrum.org/fileadmin/media/data/staatswappen.pdf, S. 6. Und ja wir haben ein neueres Gesetzt zum Wappen aus 1984, aber dort lässt sich keine Beschreibung der Symbolik finden bzw. wird nicht expliziet diese Interpretation von 1945 für nichtig erklärt. Daher bin ich der Meinung dass, auch wenn das Gesetz von 1945 nicht wirklich mehr gilt, die Interpretation der Symbolik noch gültig ist bzw. es zumindest keine andere offizelle bzw. neuere Deutung gibt.
thanks :) Greetings from Austria
I am actually from Austria :p
Grüße an alle.
Orchkatzlschwaof
@@icheckered6837 Oachkatzlschwoaf*
This is dialect
als ob ich nicht der einzige da bin xD
Switzerland Austria Czechoslovakia Italy Turkey and Greece.
Official Cringey Content
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania, Ireland, Russia, Oman
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Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq and Iran
@@Rekusasu827 There’s Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, both Yemens (lol), Kuwait, and Bahrain...
BOTSVANA
I love ostëreich. A cleaner version of germany 😎
🌅🌅
Österreich
thanks greetings from austria :D
Österreich* and thank you 🥰
Ehh, no it's not. Austria has its dark side.
Austria's flag is very beautiful but it needs a rose or something in the centre. From my mother side her great grandparents were from Austria. Hugs from Argentina :D
I know it was the former hymn of Austria, but the hymn in the background is the one of Germany today
No this is the new one
As a Jewish Israeli, I find the misuse of the swastika in both German episode and this one troubling, not cause its legitimacy or legality, but the historical value and educational value to the remembrance of the atrocities made by the Nazis and their assistants.
It's important not to give a stage to fascism, but it's more important to learn and pass over to younger population, specially now when we see a rise in radical Right Wing parties and the voices in Europe are again irritating.
A mistake is that Austria-Hungary never had a National flag but most of the people used the civil ensign to represent the country.
Misspelled Anschluss
( Thank you for video ).👍👍💓💓😍😍
the second flagof Peru had thesame design. From around 1825, but it was changed shortly after cause it was too similar to that of Spain
Why did you decide to do the German flag twice now? Weird...
Lol
its not a German flag its the flag of Austria
Fooomy smart Boy :D
Your content is very binge worthy which is great, I really hope you get more subscribers!
Yay my homeland :D
Love your vids pls make one about some flags that were created but never released to the public.
Hi I have a question:why did you started this series with the flag of portugal.
Sorry I said 1 question but on true are 2: do you plan do this series with all of oficial flags around the world
Sorry my english
Hugs from portugal
He’s Portuguese
It also inspired the flags of Texas & North Carolina.
Great video!
Great Job!
If you could do an episode on China that would be great, but there's a lot to go through
Great video but you made a small spelling mistake, it's spelled “Anschluss“
Counting the red-white-ed flag "unofficial" is more or less wrong, the HRE was less of a country and more of a weird alliance thing, so the first flag was really the 1191 one
No it was a country, the princes and kings all ranked under the emperor and more or less fought alongside him (although uniquely it did have foreign feudal possessions nominally paying tribute to the emperor, such as Hanover or Brandenburg, the capital of Prussia - the emergent Germanic rival to the HRE, spawned from an HRE German Baltic colony of the Germanic order - even being in the latter), the Holy Roman Empire was originally the Kingdom of the Germans before it conquered Rome, and before that was the East Frankish Kingdom, the German successor to Charlemagne’s Frankish Empire (with West Francia likewise becoming France). After the HRE’s destruction by Napoleon in 1806, the empire was reconstituted as the German Confederation, with the Austrian Emperor as Realm President. Austria foolishly overlooked Prussia’s growing strength in several areas, and allowed it, and Britain, their old imperial seats back in the confederation, despite being being rivals/adversaries of the German Confederation/Austria. Prussia used its position to win the favor of the Protestant north, which however did remain nominally under Austrian control until 1866. Basically the HRE and German Confederation were in fact states, but Austria’s weakness in the wake of the 30 years war and the reformation allowed the essentially autonomous politics to act unilaterally and conduct foreign policy, however they were still sworn to the emperor and if they acted against the emperor’s policy a lot of times it still meant war, just less often than before the reformation. Remember even under Prussia’s German Empire, the feudal German states still continued to exist, the only difference was Prussia’s centralization and direct control, which has only faded from the HRE due to the Habsburgs’ weakness.
A Video about Austria with German National Anthem nice 🙌🏼
Well, the German National Anthem is kind of a copy of the Kaiserhymne, they just changed the lyrics I think
Ich komme aus Österreich und wusste das alles nicht 😂🤣
ich auch nicht xD
Muss los
Alter
"Deutsch-Östereich du herrliches Land, wir lieben dich..."
Love Austria from Germany 🇩🇪♥️🇦🇹
Love all these videos, great work
Possible corrections;
The flag of the crusades was a Red Cross on a White background, not a Silver Cross on a Red background.
I always loved the legend which you alluded to, but add the rest, that when the Duke took off his belt from his blood splattered tunic it left a white stripe... The Austrian flag (or was that the Latvian flag ha ha.)
Generally these videos are Excellent!
P.S.
I'd love you to have a go at the U.K. flags including the proposals for a flag for Northern Ireland, the old one being defunct in 1972. But take care, this is one of the most politically sensitive issues in the World today ha ha.
Bevors the Habsburg Austria already excited and already had a flag
One of the two prominent flags of Serbia's Karadjorgeva, from the period of the first uprising
may be an episode about Poland, Monaco and Indonesia... 3 flags look the same (or just up side down)?
Flag of Estonia woult be interesting.
Can u do Lithuanian flag
Good Video, Greetings from Austria!
Dein Kanoi ho i aboniad :D (I subbed your channel)
Please make hungarian flag :)
All the the flag is right i think, But as a german i have to say 2 things:
1. the confederation of the Rhine was followed by the German Confederation not the North German confederation.
2. Not an mistake, But you use the melody of "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser", wich is about the emperor of Austria. But its also used as the melody of the german national anthem today and Most likely associated with Germany today.
The Rest of the Video, esspecially the Part about the eagle, is Great. I would be interrested in a Video about Russia (But thats just my opinion :D)
"Most likely associated with Germany today." Not by me. Greetings from Vienna! 😎
3:26 Not "Reik" (as this pronunciation would be written in German), but "Reich" (same word as "rich" in German, but a noun for empire).
Also noch "Anchluss", but "Anschluss" or Old-German: "Anschluß".
😐
Wait a minute is the flag of the Austrian capital Just a flag the Monaco or Indonesia
Doooonooobe river 😂
Nice done! BTW., I'm Austrian
Lictois ツ I wanna go to Austria so badly because I've heard it's very beautiful
Kamelius ツ Servus Fellow German
Sers oida, wie rennts so?
he oida wos geht @@dirtywojta
@@imperialraijin ois gonz gschmeidig, stö ma grod an eini! und söwa?
The first offical flag is/was Red white red...
Are you sheldon cooper?
A incredible video please the flag of mexico 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Did you know that there is a "Mexicoplatz" in vienna, which was named that way because Mexico was the only country to protest when Austria got annexed in 1938? es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexikoplatz
1:53 that literally looks like the Russian coat of arms but more distorted looking
Its Anschluss not Anchluss
The hammer and sickle represents the USSR.
No? it represents farmers and workers.
There is Definantly going to be the Austrian Atheme playing in the Backround *German Atheme Plays*
(P.S: i am Austrian :D)
Das liegt daran ,dass sie vorher UNSERE Kaiserhymne war, also UNSERE Nationalhymne!
The Origin: Lepold V. Babenberg! (Ducke of Austria at that time). Siege of Acre 1189-1191; 3rd Crusade. At least that is the legend.: The clothing was soked with blood apart from the area under the belt which he removed after the battle. That is why there is a white stripe.
Rudolf I. (Holy Roman Emperor) Habsburg, who fought against king Ottokar from Bohemia (1273 - 1278) in order to get the dutchy of Austria after the Babenebergers died out, was the first Habsburger in Austria. Their castle of origin lies in todays Switzerland.
Also the flags after ww1 and ww2 had a slight difference in that the chains aeound the eagles feet were added after ww2 in order to symbolize liberation from nazi german dictatorship. Since the state of Austria itself was kind of a victim of nazi aggression, because it did not exist anymore, but parts of the population colaborated/identified with/as nazis and Germans.
And it's "Anschluss" with and s, or "sch" which is more or less like "sh" in english, while "ch" is a totally different sound.
Great Channel, the flag of Bolivia please
Blood of those who fight for the freedom!
*ANSCHLUSS, not anchluss...
Georgia's flag was influenced by the stars and bars of the confederacy.
Correct, and no coincidence here with the Stars and Bars looking kind of Austrian! The Stars and Bars was designed by a Prussian, who was likely inspired by the Austrian flag (but with a United States looking canton added). This eventually led to the Georgian flag unintentionally using an Austrian looking flag.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America#First_flag:_the_%22Stars_and_Bars%22_(1861%E2%80%931863)
That wasn't the actual flag of the U.S. state of Georgia.
Notification team where are you?
By the way, the word "Habsburg" is called "Habsburg", not "Absburg". It's got an H in it. :)
English speakers have a hard time to spell a single H like we have our problems with their th^^
You didn't explain the flag's history in 4:14 well. Yes, his clothes were covered in blood, but he later put off his belt and then there was a white strip. In 3:26, it's not pronounced "Reik" it's "Reich" like it written. And it's Anschluss (the s missed), but you pronounced Anschluss right and Reich not?
Egypt!! PLEASE
can you make one about the flag of the Philippines😊💕
You played the German National Anthem in the background not the Austrian
It's the melody of "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" which roughly means "God bless Emperor Franz" and is originally an Austrian song. Germany adapted the melody for its national anthem later
Check out my pinned comment for the explanation why.
The British/korean Guy IT ISN'T YOU SCUMBAG!!
General Knowledge sorry I didn’t realise Germany adopted it from Austria
The British/korean Guy *stole
Wrong state flag of Georgia
I noticed that as well! That was from 1902, when the current one's from 2003! To be fair, both were based on the old flag of the Confederate States, but still, 1902 is quite different from 2003!
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)#First_flag_(1879%E2%80%931956)
U used the german anthem in the background. It is the old austrian anthem but the germans stole it
Luxembourg
Pls make Slovakia
Sheldon irl???
Following since the first video. Nice surprise this chanel. Still waiting for Amy to show!
Who is also Austrian like me?
anSchluss
How original...
Are the hammer and sickle on the eagle related to comunism?
Did you watch the Video? No its not related. Sorry for the late Answer anyway
Nevertheless the communist party is strong in some areas
Im the 61st view!!
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*Anschluss
lol Anchluss… it is a SCH not CH ^^
I hate to bring up Battlefield 1, but the flag for the Austrian-Hungarian flag is the black and yellow Austrian Imperial flag with the double headed eagle with the crowns. And the default emblem is the Holy Roman Empire symbol with the yellow background and the double headed eagle with the circles with the heads rather than the crowns. Now I’m pretty sure it’s historically accuracy is low. But was their any chance of those two flags being used during World War I?
1. Anschluss, not Anchluss.
2. 'Brief' allied occupation??
Occupied by the Soviets...
@@aoilpe Kind of correct: part of it was under Russian occupation, but much like with Germany's arbitrary division among Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Austria was also arbitrarily divided among those nations until 1955, when the Allies pulled out of Austria and left the nation they helped develop to do it's own thing (more than I could say about Germany, whose arbitrary divisions became East and West Germany until 1990, or Korea, which is still divided).
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria
Do the German flag!
Poland
"Anschluss" Not "Anchluss"
What? The Holy Roman Empire was the Start?
Read up the Babenberg-History!
Sory but austrian hungary not have nasional flag
isnt Reich pronounce as R(eye)sh?
Ace Ryan Jamorabon No, Reich and not "Reick" or "R(eye)sh"
I've heard that the "ch" in "Reich" is (in German) pronounced as that "kh" sound that also appears in German in "fluch" (curse). In practice, however, English doesn't use this often (except maybe for very Scottish pronunciations of "loch", but even that is often pronounced "lock"), so English-speakers often pronounce it as "Rike" (which, fittingly, is an archaic English term meaning "realm", and is a cognate of the German term). In other words, it is properly "Reikh", but in English, "Rike" also works.
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich#In_English
Do the Mexican flag cx
Do czech flag
German anthem in the background when you're talking the Austrian flag.. Really?! 🙄
It's the austrian "volkshymne"-melody used during the empire and first republik.
It was the anthem of the Austrian Empire composed by an Austrian (Haydn) for an Austrian (Franz II(Holy Roman Emperor)/I(Austrian Emperor)).
Armenia flag
3:32 Allied LIBERATION
yeah, sure. the austrians did not want to be a part of the third reich.
Yes,that’s why they were fighting so hard against the Anschluss with hundreds of millions of victims!! (Irony)
So why they couldn’t do the same thing with Switzerland?
Lord Keks ;
I think it was to dangerous for him ; Basel is the HQ of the „Bank for International Settlements „ the Bank of ALL National Banks in the world, where they could/can transfer gold bars from one nationally owned cage to another ,even between war enemies...this still is the case today.
Geneva was the HQ of the „League of Nations“, today’s UNO building. I think Hitler didn’t wanted a lot more allies against him...
Ukraine!
austrain flag > american flag
so sad that history is being censored bcuz of woke culture.
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OK this is funny. It's all right what you said about Austria (I'm from Austria or Österreich in German) but it's not Anchluss. It's Anschluss
I'm from Austria and say nice job but the hymne is false that's from Germany 😉... Make Austria great again 🇦🇹🇦🇹
CanoBoy Die Hymne is net foisch du vuidottl! Des is die Hymne vom österreichischen Kaiserreich du kloana nix checka. Die scheis Biefkes hom uns de Hymne g'stoihn
Lictois ツ stimmt aber ich hob gedacht das er das nicht weiß sry
Kamelius ツ wieso? Wenn es geht um Schutz und Trutze, Brüderlich zusammenhällt, von Süd Tirol bis Schleswig und Elsaß bis Memel