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image by Jarig Bakker, 9 Mar 2008
Gminy (districts) in Sławno county:
That is the correct flag. See the law
about the flag (.pdf file, 4,5 MB).
The square flag is the flag of the president of the county council
(Starosta), and in similar form also the standard (obverse) of the
County.
Jens Pattke, 22 Mar 2008
![[Slawno county flag]](../images/p/pl-zp-sl.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 9 Mar 2008
Here is the flag of Slawno County. The flag is a Banner of Arms, ratio
1:1.
The Sławno county arms and flag is derived from the Slawno city (German:
Schlawe)
Coat of Arms - info:
"Schlawe was founded as a Polish village, but received its German name
and city rights in 1317. The oldest seal of the city dates from the same
time and shows only a sea-griffin (an eagle with a fish tail). The sea-griffin
was the arms of the Swenzo-family that ruled the city. A second seal, dating
from the mid 14th century shows the sea-griffin with the Wipper river,
and the chequered diamond. The meaning or origin of the latter is not known.
All later seals show the same composition, which was placed in a shield
in the 19th century.
Literature: Hupp, O: Königreich Preussen. Wappen der Städte, Flecken
und Dörfer. Reprint von 1896 und 1898. Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen,
Bonn, 1993."
Source: Ralf Hartemink's
site.
Jens Pattke, 30 Mar 2002
I have taken an image from wikipedia
to make the image a bit clearer: red square flag with a white sea-griffin,
holding a checky yellow and blue chessboard.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Mar 2008
The "chessboard" is only 8 X 7.
It'd be interesting to know the significance of that...
Lewis A. Nowitz, 16 Mar 2008
Flag and Coat of Arms are derived from the ones of the city of Slawno, which
in its turn derive from a seal dated 1352, equally with an incomplete chessboard,
see here - I
don't know whether an explanation is given; perhaps it's not a chessboard
at all...
Jarig Bakker, 16 Mar 2008
Yes it is chessboard, but I can't understand the whole text. Something
like the symbol of the place where the flame came from.
Valentin Poposki, 16 Mar 2008
As many of the towns in the region received the municipal rights from
the Pomeranian nobles, the arms bestowed upon them carried the most common
symbol of the local nobility - the fish-catching sea-griffin.
To differentiate among them, some other devices were gradually added
to their arms.
German heraldist Otto Hupp, who discovered the 1352 seal of Slawno,
speculates the "chessboard" represents the town's defensive walls.
Polish heraldist, M.Gumowski, doesn't dispute that and recalls other
towns in Pomerania which supplemented their griffins with distinguishing
them devices like Świnoujście (anchor) or
Słupsk
(waves).
The number of squares in the "chessboard" changed from time to time
in the seal, and there is no detailed explanation for that.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 17 Mar 2008
![[Sławno county Coat of Arms]](../images/p/pl-zp)sl.gif)
image from this website.
