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Flag of Region Grand Est - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 December 2024
See also:
Departments:
Ardennes,
Aube,
Marne,
Haute-Marne,
Meurthe-et-Moselle,
Meuse,
Moselle,
Bas-Rhin,
Haut-Rhin, (these last two merged in 2021 into Collectivité européenne d'Alsace), Vosges
Bordering Regions:
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,
Hauts-de-France,
Île-de-France,
Bordering countries:
Belgium,
Germany,
Luxembourg,
Switzerland
Traditional provinces:
Alsace,
Bourgogne,
Champagne,
Franche-Comté,
Lorraine
Area: 57,433 km2
Population (2021): 5,561,287 inhabitants
Regional prefecture: Strasbourg
The name of Region Grand Est was chosen in April 2016. Of the nearly 290,000 votes by the inhabitants on the Internet, 75% (215,530 votes) went to "Grand Est", ahead of "Nouvelle Austrasie" (10.4%, or 29906 votes), 9.8% for Rhin-Champagne (9.8%, or 28080 votes) and 4.8% for Acalie (4.8%, or 13,904 votes). The name was officialy adopted in October 2016.
Olivier Touzeau & Ivan Sache, 3 September 2017
In June 2022, a new logo was adopted by the Regional council: same font as earlier, same bars of the "E",
but the names of the former regions merged into Grand Est has
disappeared [source: official website].
A blue flag with this new logo is in use: photo (2023), photo from this page (2024).
Olivier Touzeau, 19 December 2024
Former flags of Region Grand Est
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Former flags of Region Grand Est, two versions - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 3 September 2017
The flag of Region Grand Est was used during several events (sports
competitions, worldskills events....), with the Region's logo placed either on a blue (photo) or a white (photo) field.
The logo had been created in August 2016.
In the logo, the three bars of the "E", slightly detached like the
three colored lines that underline Grand Est, symbolize the union of
the three identities that make up the new large region [source].
The flags with this logo came in use in 2017 ; until then, the three
former flags of the former regions (Alsace, Lorraine,
Champagne-Ardenne) were in use in front of the regional council: photo from this page (2017).
In January 2016, a provisional logo (image) with the provisional name of the region (Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine, ACAL) had been created. The logo appeared on communication items: kakemonos, streamers... (photo, photo)]
Olivier Touzeau, 19 December 2024
Administrative data
Departments:
Bas-Rhin,
Haut-Rhin
Bordering Regions:
Franche-Comté,
Lorraine
Bordering countries:
Germany,
Switzerland
Traditional province: Alsace
Area: 8,280 km2
Population (1995): 1,689,800 inhabitants
Regional prefecture: Strasbourg
NB : not to be confused with Collectivité européenne d'Alsace, created in 2021 by the merger of the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin.
Flag of the Region
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Flag of the former Region Alsace - Image by Pascal Vagnat, 21 February 2004
The flag of Region Alsace was a banner of the simplified arms of the traditional province of Alsace, "Per pale, 1. Gules a bend sinister cotised fleury argent (Lower Alsace), 2. Gules a bend between six crowns bendwise or (Upper Alsace)".
These arms are based on the Alsatian arms, already documented in the 16th century but hardly used since then.
Instead of the two confronted bends of the traditional arms, the new arms
have kept only the white bend representing Lower-Alsace. The crowns
representing Upper-Alsace are now placed on both sides of the white
coticed bend.
These arms have been designed and used by the Regional Council since the
1990s.
The new flag is hoisted over the building of the Regional Council of Alsace in Strasbourg. Beforehand, the Regional Council used the flag of the traditional province of Alsace.
Pascal Vagnat, 21 February 2004
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Flag of the former Region Alsace; left, after 2007; right, before 2007 - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 5 September 2017
White flags with the Regional Council's logo (photo) were sometimes used in the 1990s and onwards.
Olivier Touzeau, 5 September 2017
Administrative data
Departments:
Ardennes,
Aube,
Marne,
Haute-Marne
Bordering Regions:
Bourgogne,
Franche-Comté,
Île-de-France,
Lorraine,
Picardie
Bordering country: Belgium
Traditional provinces:
Bourgogne,
Champagne,
Franche-Comté,
Lorraine
Area: 25,606 km2
Population (1995): 1,352,500 inhabitants
Regional prefecture: Châlons-en-Champagne
Flag of the Region
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Flag of the former Region Champagne-Ardenne, three versions - Images by Philippe-Pierre Darras, 18 January 1999
Created in 1987, the logo of the Region shows two yellow and green hearts entwined. In a Region without much of a strong common identity between its constituent departments, they symbolize the union through which a feeling of regional identity should develop. Yellow and green stand for the Region's ressources: yellow for vineyards, champagne and the cornfields as well as for the Region prestigious past; green conveys the idea that Champagne-Ardenne nature is rich in forests and rivers.
Philippe-Pierre Darras, 18 January 1999
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Flag of the former Region Champagne-Ardenne; left, 2011-2016; right, before 2011 - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 6 September 2017
The flag was also used with the full version of the logotype of the Regional Council (photo, Regional Council).
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Earlier flag of the former Region Champagne-Ardenne - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 6 September 2017
Before 1987, the flag was white with a totally different logo (Luc Doublet. L'aventure des drapeaux [dou87]).
Olivier Touzeau, 6 September 2017
Administrative data
Departments:
Meurthe-et-Moselle,
Meuse,
Moselle,
Vosges
Bordering Regions:
Alsace,
Champagne-Ardenne,
Franche-Comté
Bordering countries:
Belgium,
Germany,
Luxembourg
Traditional provinces:
Lorraine,
Champagne
Area: 23,547 km2
Population (1995): 2,311,500 inhabitants
Regional prefecture: Metz
Former flag of the Region
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Former flag of Region Lorraine, left, 1999-2016, right, 1993-1999 - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 7 September 2017
Rarely used, this flag was hoisted on a hotel in Metz, closed to the
provincial flag and on a secondary school, owned by the Regional Council.
In January 1999, the Regional Council replaced the word "région" by "conseil régional" in the same font, but placed below "lorraine". The reason for the substitution of is the misuse of the former logo, not connected enough to the regional
institution in several cases.
The logo was designed by CharlÉlie Couture, a French artist (singer,
painter, photogaph, writer) born in Nancy.
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Former flag of Region Lorraine with horizontal logo - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 9 February 2021
A flag with horizontal logo (photo, photo, photo) was used in Vauquois.
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Earlier flag of Region Lorraine - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 7 September 2017
Beforehand, the flag was white with a totally different logo (Luc Doublet. L'aventure des drapeaux [dou87]).
Pascal Vagnat & Olivier Touzeau, 9 February 2021
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Flag of PNR Vosges du Nord - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 10 October 2020
PNR Vosges du Nord (1,305 km2), grouping 111 municipalities in Moselle and Bas-Rhin, was established in 1976.
The flag of the PNR, as hoisted in Niederbronn-les-Bains (photo), is white with the PNR's logo.
Olivier Touzeau, 10 October 2020
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