After this point, these colours continued to be used as the flag of Austria until 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Imperial_Austrian_Army_of_the_Napoleonic_Wars#/media/File:Bataillonsfahne_vom_Jahre_1792.jpg. They were also used by the former district of Bern until its abolition in 2009. But "or, a one-headed eagle displayed sable" might be a good a coat of arms for the Kingdom of Germany, or maybe "or, semi of franks (axe-heads) sable" to show it was originally the east Frankish kingdom. In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte declared the First French Empire. Or the three kingdoms could be represented by their crosses. After the late 13th or early 14th century, the claws and beak of … Francis II became the last Holy Roman Emperor after Napoleon I of France defeated Austria in 1806. The colours red and white were also significant during this period. The flag was first adopted as the national flag of modern Germany in 1919, during the Weimar Republic, until 1933. An early bearer was Werner I, count of Winterthur, who carried the flag for Conrad II and Henry III and who died in the battle at Brůdek in 1040. From the early 15th century, a double-headed eagle was used. The colours red and white were also significant during this period. The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since the late 1960s. In response to this, Emperor Francis II of the Habsburg dynasty declared his personal domain to be the Austrian Empire and became Francis I of Austria. According to Meyers Konversations-Lexikon of 1897 (under the heading "Banner"), the German Imperial Banner at the time of Henry the Fowler (r. 919–936) and Otto the Great (r. 936–973) depicted the Archangel Michael; at the time of Frederick Barbarossa (r. 1155–90), an eagle; at the time of Otto IV (r. 1209–15) an eagle hovering over a dragon, and since the time of Sigismund (r. 1433–37), and "perhaps earlier", the Imperial Eagle, namely a black eagle in a yellow field, bearing the arms of the emperor's house on its breast. Various large aristocratic families did employ certain symbols to identify themselves; the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ, the Theotokos and various saints is also attested on seals of officials, but these were often personal rather than family emblems. Black and yellow later became the family colours of the Imperial House of Habsburg, as they held the title of Holy Roman Emperor over centuries and were themselves in part derived from the banner of the Holy Roman Empire. https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400%2C400i%2C700%2C700i|Material+Icons&display=swap,//www.planetminecraft.com/css/images.css?v=URMjec18wAmw5C-mdB2O_p5ceWGk-jP9KN4QA1P3SFy7DI5f,//www.planetminecraft.com/css/style.css?v=ZdEudNRajLAC3ghdbd3siwfKBUmgmGEuoyjjoTaVcKvkxJJf,//www.planetminecraft.com/css/editor.css?v=AQSt1wTuMmM9DhHmhRcb55bkOMc2V-LzYAFK0PyQ52y7DI5f, Chilling on the couch - 1,3k subs Celebration Artwork. It was adopted as a naval ensign and flags of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Duchy of Modena and Reggio in the 18th and 19th century respectively, as both were ruled by cadet branches of the House of Habsburg. These two schemes are prevalent in the modern civic heraldry of northern Italian towns and remains a revealing indicator of their past facti, Imperial Banners of the Holy Roman Empire. by 5ft. German heraldic style is one of the four major broad traditions within European heraldry and stands in contrast to Gallo-British, Latin and Eastern heraldry, and strongly influenced the styles and customs of heraldry in the Nordic countries, which developed comparatively late. Hanseatic trading ships were identifiable by their red-white pennants and most Hanseatic cities adopted red and white as their city colours (see Hanseatic flags). On this occasion, it was first referred to as the Reichssturmfahne ("Imperial War Flag"). However, this proved to be a complicated design and was hard to reproduce. The national colours of the Federal Republic of Germany are officially black, red, and gold, defined with the adoption of the West German flag as a tricolour with these colours in 1949. It will look better if you made the flag as a vector graphics file. Taking the colours of the banner of the Holy Roman Emperor, the flag of the Austrian Empire was black and gold.