Blazon of Wrocław

Blazon of Wrocław

1530

The first blazon of Wrocław dating from the XIVe century established under the authority of Charles IV of the Holy roman Empire. Two field comprising the head of holy Jean-Baptiste on a plate, two fields following representatives a crowned Czech lion. One can contemplate this blazon only at one place, the room of the blazons of the castle Lauf close to Nuremberg.

the February 12th 1530 the king of Bohemia and Hungary, Ferdynand I gave to the city a new blazon, privilege which was confirmed the July 10th by the emperor Charles Quint:

The blazon of Wrocław is one ecu shared in cross, in four fields:

  • the field higher right (in the heraldic direction) comprises a lion upright supported on the left and crowned, open mouth and tail fourchue drawn up. The lion is white with black contour, the crown is gold with black contour, and the bottom is red.

  • the left higher field comprises an eagle with the symmetrically spread wings, the head turned on the right, the chest and the barred wings of a crescent of the moon, which is surmounted by a cross with equal branches. The eagle is black, the crescent and the cross are white, and the bottom is gold.
  • the field lower right comprises large a " W" black on bottom gold.
  • the left lower field represents the bust of holy Jean the Evangelist of face, with the young face and carrying a buckled hair, like female, surrounded by an aureole; the bust is posed on a reversed crown. The bust is white with black contour, the aureole and the crown are gold with black contour, and the bottom is red,
  • In the middle of the ecu with four fields, the head of St Jean-Baptiste inclined on the right rests on a round plate. The head is white, the hair and the beard is black, the plate white and is surrounded by a double black contour.

1938

The October 19th 1938 the Nazis on order of the Gauleiter of Silesia Joseph Wagner effacairent the traditional blazon, the substitute by a blazon has two fields. in that the top, a black eagle on bottom but, and in the low part, on red bottom, a Cross of iron - the originator of this new blazon was Berliner professor Schweitzer-Mjoelnir. Extract of a newspaper of this time:

… the gauleiter of Silesia Josef Wagner does not appreciate the marked blazon of the letter " W". it east " appears; too much Slavic " , because it takes again initial first name of the Czech king " Wratysław" , founder of our city. The so unsuitable lion besides and he, because of Czech origin.

In addition to that, the gauleiter Wagner thinks that on the blazon appears too much of Christian symbol. The central image of St. Jean-Baptiste on a plate does not arrange the feelings of our gauleiter. It thus ordered the creation of a new blazon. It will comprise a Silesian eagle and a Croix of iron with the letters " FW" and dates it 1813. The initial ones are those of the king Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia (all. Friedrich Wilhelm III.), which founded the distinction of the Croix of iron after the war of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte.

1948

After the Second world war and the return of Wrocław under Polish domination, was restored for one short period (until in 1948) the traditional blazon of the city. In February of this same year the council of the city modified the original blazon - the moved Czech lion of field I with field III, the head of Jean-Baptiste saint erased, and in the place of the Czech lion, one drew a Polish white eagle without crown. This blazon however was never used. Always in 1948, the blazon of the city was represented by an eagle has two heads imitating the moyenâgeux seal of the mayor of the town of Wrocław - even older than the current blazon of the city. The author of this new blazon was the historian Karol Maleczyński.

The right field (in the heraldic direction), comprises a Polish eagle, head turned towards the left, the eagle is white with black contour, the bottom is red.

  • the left field comprises a black eagle of Silesia, head turned towards the line, has chest and wing barred of a crescent of the moon, the bottom is gold.

1990

The June 19th 1990 the municipal council restored the original blazon of the city.

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