File:Alleged flag of the Rhine Confederation 1806-13.svg

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Reason: This flag is dispute and there are few source mention the flag itself

Summary

Description

Deutsch: "angebliche" Flagge des Rheinbundes von 1806-1813.

English: Flag attributed to the Confederation of the Rhine by "flaggenlexikon.de"; the source itself states that "it isn't known exactly" if the Confederation had an official flag. This particular design is cited as the "alleged" (angebliche) flag, but no source as to the source of this "allegation" is given.

The design has been online at flaggenlexikon since 2004

In 2023, the author of flaggenlexicon gave the following comment after an email inquiry:

"Now you ask me from where I got the picture of the flag. Unfortunately, I can not tell you. When I started the Flaggenlexikon, I worked without any sources at all. It was a small hobby project that grew and grew. Later I worked on the sources. When I revised the Confederation of the Rhine, it was no longer possible to keep track of it. But it is a fact that the Confederation of the Rhine certainly did not have a flag. That is why I have kept the flag mentioned, pointing out this fact, and the word "alleged" was added from the beginning. It is regrettable that facts are created from this, but for me it is also part of the process of gaining knowledge."

Date

2004; erstellt im März 2007

Source

http://www.flaggenlexikon.de/fdtlhirb.htm#Flagge

Author

N3MO

Permission
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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:50, 31 August 2022	900 × 600 (263 bytes)	Ketipmaig	Reverted to version as of 23:26, 5 December 2018 (UTC) Colours have to match sources. The only source showing the flag (https://www.flaggenlexikon.de/fdtlhirb.htm#Flagge) show this exact colour.
	23:06, 30 August 2022	900 × 600 (1 KB)	Paolo Interdonato	Reverted to version as of 04:20, 30 June 2022 (UTC) Unexplained revert
	15:39, 26 August 2022	900 × 600 (263 bytes)	Ketipmaig	Reverted to version as of 23:26, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
	04:20, 30 June 2022	900 × 600 (1 KB)	Salvadoroff	The current color palette looks very bad and intense in some devices and it's really easy to confuse it with the Sierra Leone's flag. Also, it's not a matter of similarity to the source of the flag but of similarity to the real historical flag. We could think that due its french origin, the flag should have some similarity to the flag of the First French Empire, and that's where I took this new palette from.
	23:26, 5 December 2018	900 × 600 (263 bytes)	Liambaker98	Reverted to version as of 16:52, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
	22:17, 5 December 2018	900 × 600 (260 bytes)	Liambaker98	Reverted to version as of 08:24, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
	16:52, 12 November 2018	900 × 600 (263 bytes)	Koopinator	This version better corresponds with the colours outlined in https://www.flaggenlexikon.de/fdtlhirb.htm#Flagge , Which is the only source for this flag.
	08:24, 15 November 2015	900 × 600 (260 bytes)	Alkari	code cleanup
	09:43, 9 March 2007	1,200 × 800 (2 KB)	N3MO	{{Information \|Description={{de\|Flagge, wie sie für den Rheinbund von 1806-1813 angenommen wird.}} \|Source=http://www.flaggenlexikon.de/fdtlhirb.htm#Flagge \|Date=erstellt im März 2007 \|Author=N3MO \|Permission={{PD-self}} \|other_ver