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Schwyz Flag

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Schwyz Flag

Red with a small white cross: the Schwyz flag

The flag of the Canton of Schwyz is a red field with a small white cross in the upper corner, next to the pole. A very simple flag, which many people mistake at first sight for the Swiss one. There is a link with Switzerland, though it does not run through the cross: Schwyz is the canton that gave its name to the whole of Switzerland.

The canton that gave Switzerland its name

Schwyz is one of the founding cantons: confederate perhaps as early as 1291, the year of the pact with Uri and Nidwalden, and certainly from 1315, the year of the battle of Morgarten. It was so active in the alliances and wars of the first confederates that as early as the fourteenth century the chroniclers of the Empire called all the confederates «Schwyzer», people of Schwyz. From that name came the name of Switzerland.

A red cloth, without figures

For centuries the flag of Schwyz was just a red cloth, with no image at all. In the Middle Ages popular piety linked that red to the blood of Christ and to the blood shed by the men of Schwyz. Later, in the corner by the pole, a small panel appeared with the Crucified Christ and the instruments of the Passion. It is said that the men of Schwyz received it in 1289 from King Rudolf I; according to more recent historians, however, it hardly appeared before the middle of the fourteenth century. The oldest one to survive is on the banner of the Burgundian Wars.

From the Crucifix to the small cross

Of that sacred image, over time, only a small white cross remained. It appears here and there on the arms in the seventeenth century and on seals and coins in the eighteenth, and towards the end of the eighteenth century on flags too. In 1815 the government of Schwyz fixed the final form of the arms, and in 1963 a decree of the Government Council settled the design of the cross once and for all, on the arms as on the flag.

Two crosses, two stories

It is often said that the Swiss cross was born from the cross of Schwyz. It is a lovely story, but the Schwyz State Archives explain that it does not match the facts: the white cross that the confederates pinned onto themselves in battle, already at Laupen in the fourteenth century, and from which the Swiss flag was born, has a history of its own, independent of the small Schwyz panel. Two sister crosses, each on its own path.

Who chooses it

For anyone from Schwyz and for those who moved away, for Schwyz families in Italy and around the world and Swiss associations abroad, for a commune, a district or a school, for the balcony on the 1st of August, when streets, squares and balconies fill with flags, for the pilgrims of Einsiedeln, for fans of Schwyz teams, for a hotel, a restaurant or a mountain hut between the Rigi and the Mythen, for hikers around Lake Lucerne. We sew it to order, in the size and fabric you choose above, and you see the delivery date before you pay.

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Proportions
1:1
Number of colours
1
Colour
Red

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