Currently, the flag is recognized symbol of the Silesian people in the state of Saxony in Germany.

The Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, an autonomous region of Kingdom of Bohemia, within Austria-Hungary used a flag horizontally divided into two stripes, which were black on top, and yellow on the bottom.

The colours came from the coat of arms of Lower Silesia, which features black eagle on a yellow background.

It was rectangle divided horizontally into two stripes: white on top, and yellow on the bottom.

[2][3] The white and yellow flag is recognized as the symbol of Silesian people in the state of Saxony in Germany.

The flag was a rectangle divided into two equally-sized horizontal stripes, white on the top, and red on the bottom, inspired by the red-and-white flag of Poland, with a coat of arms of the voivodeship in the centre, which depicted a left-faced eagle, with a white (silver) crescent put across its wings, with a white (silver) cross pattée, placed the yellow (golden) Iberian style escutcheon.

Following that, then voivodeship marshal Marek Łapiński, proposed a new design of the flag, which had been approved by the Regional Assembly on 30 October 2008, in the resolution no.

Thus, the design of the coat of arms of the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia is very similar to the one in this flag.