Gliwice coat of arms

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Gliwice
Silesian Voivodeship
Coat of arms of the city of Gliwice
Blazon

“Split; in front in blue a half, golden eagle at the gap, behind in red a silver tower. "

City flag
          Blue red
Basic data
Introduction: 15th century / 1947
Changes: 1629 new coat of arms awarded by Emperor Ferdinand II - in use until 1947

The coat of arms of Gliwice (Gleiwitz) consists of two fields.

The city's coat of arms is split; in front in blue a half golden eagle at the gap (the Upper Silesian eagle), behind in red a silver tin tower with a blue pointed roof. The coat of arms was introduced after the Second World War and is based on an earlier variant of the Gliwice coat of arms.

First coat of arms (until 1629)

Today's coat of arms is based on the coat of arms that was first used around 1400. On a two-part shield it showed the eagle of the Upper Silesian Piasts on the right, a tower on the left.

  • Seal of Gleiwitz from 1596

Coat of arms from 1629 to 1945

Seal / stamp of the magistrate
Seal of the magistrate

The old coat of arms dates from 1629 and was bestowed by Emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years' War as a thank you in honor of the city and its inhabitants.

This coat of arms was split; in front in the red field with a silver bar a half, gold nimbed, black eagle at the gap ( Habsburg eagle ), in the back in blue a nimbed, half golden eagle ( Upper Silesian eagle ) at the gap. The split line was covered with a silver crenellated tower with a red pointed roof and an open gate, above the top the Madonna with child and scepter growing in a rising crescent moon in glory ; Two green palm fronds emerge from the open gate through its portcullis, between which the tower is covered with the initials F II of Emperor Ferdinand. On a painting in the All Saints Church, the door of the gate is also red-white-red, but this is not part of the coat of arms. Sometimes the coat of arms was adorned with a three-tower wall crown.

The old coat of arms was not restored even after the "communist" era, but is still strongly represented in the cityscape. It is still on some buildings in the city today. Among other things at the town hall , the red chemistry building of the Silesian Technical University and in the All Saints Church .

  • Siege of Gleiwitz with the coat of arms awarded by Ferdinand II; 17th century painting

  • The coat of arms of Gleiwitz, after Otto Hupp

  • The old coat of arms on the red chemistry building

  • The old coat of arms with a three-tower wall crown

Today's coat of arms

During the de-Germanisation of the city in the post-war period, the Habsburg eagle was first replaced by the Polish eagle and the red-white-red background was replaced by red, the crescent moon was removed and the tower was colored red, before the coat of arms was completely replaced shortly afterwards new coat of arms replaced. In 1947, the City National Council of Gliwice decided to change the city's coat of arms and announced a competition.

  • Coat of arms from 1978 to 1996

City flag

The old city flags combined the colors of the Habsburgs, red and white, with the blue of Upper Silesia. The current flag consists only of the colors red and blue.

  • City flag of Gliwice (until 1945)

  • City flag of Gliwice

District coat of arms

Łabędy

The coat of arms of Łabędy shows a white swan swimming in the water (green) on a red background.

Czechowice

Czechowice does not have its own coat of arms, but it has old community stamps that show St. George killing a dragon.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Gliwice: History of the city
  2. ↑ Miejski Serwis Informacyjny: No. 11/2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gliwice.eu   , March 15, 2007
  3. ↑ See [1]

Web links

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