Dortmund is the third biggest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with an population around 590 thousand. However in one of the largest conurbations in Europe the Ruhr is Dortmund the biggest city. Due its location the city was in some periods in history an important city. In the Holy Roman Empire the city became in 1236 an free imperial city, the subordinate only to the emperor and was kind of autonomous. After an while it became one of the important hanseatic city. In the 19th century and an part of the 20th century the entire Ruhr area became one of the biggest industrialized areas in the world. Mainly coal mining and turning ores with that coal into iron and steel. Rebuild after World War II Dortmund and the Ruhr experienced the Wirtschaftswunder in the 50's and 60's and the big decline of the 70's. Beside the city if known for four things, Borussia Dortmund the successful football club. The beerstyle Dortmunder also know as Export, the shoppingstreet Westhellweg and the highly ranked Technical University of Dortmund. But somehow Dortmundmanaged is risings as an phoenix again and again. So lets take an look at the flag.
The horizontal red and white stripes comes from the Hanseatic League. The League starts using this colors to distinct them from Danish and English ships. Later members of the League creating variations to distinct them from member cities. There are also blue-white and blue-red-yellow variations but mostly its red and white with an symbol or crest.
Shield in the center is an imperial eagle (Reichsadler) and most of the free imperial cities from the former Holy Roman Empire uses an eagle in their flag of coat of arms. The eagle has its roots from the standard of the Roman empire. The eagle is still in use in Germany and Austria.
An straight forwarded flag with an strong eagle on it.
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