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The empire was founded on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, France, where the south German states, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force on 16 April, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of ...
War flag of the Holy Roman Empire: Red swords crossed on top of one another on a field. The top of the field is black and the bottom of the field is white. 15th century: War flag of the Holy Roman Empire: A non-rectangular [clarification needed] flag depicting a black eagle on a yellow field with a red bar on top c. 12th –early 14th centuries
Proclamation of the German Empire (paintings) Painting for the Berlin Castle, unveiled on 22 March 1877. Oil on canvas, 4.34 x 7.32m, lost during the war. Only as a black-and-white photograph, shortened by about 40cm on the right edge. The Proclamation of the German Empire (18 January 1871) is the title of several historical paintings by the ...
v. t. e. The unification of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ] ⓘ) was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs ' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).
The first wallpaper pattern he designed for his company was the Trellis wallpaper in 1864. ... of the period of the Second Empire ... (in English, German, and French ...
The black-white-red flag[1] (German: Schwarz-Weiß-Rot[2]), also flag of the German Empire, or Imperial Flag, Realm Flag (German: Reichsflagge) is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. Starting as the national flag of the North German Confederation, it would go on to be commonly used officially and ...
German Reich (lit. 'German Empire, German Realm' from German: Deutsches Reich, pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈʁaɪç] ⓘ) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 18 January 1871 to 5 June 1945. The Reich became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German Volk ...
The German Empire consisted of 25 states: four kingdoms, six grand duchies, five duchies, seven principalities and three Hanseatic cities.In addition, the house order of the Hohenzollern principalities, although the states themselves had been annexed by Prussia, continued to be awarded in the imperial era.