Opole

	OPOLE Country: Poland Province: Opole County: Free urban city/city county Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":50.66550000000000153477230924181640148162841796875,"lon":17.926100000000001699618223938159644603729248046875,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms of the city combine the eagle of Upper Silezia with a cross. The cross probably symbolises the local church, which was devoted to the Holy Cross. The composition already apperead on the oldest seal of the city, which dates from the 13^th century. All later seals and images have used the same composition. Historically the city used the arms correctly with a red beak and red fangs of the eagle.

Image gallery

The seal from around 1900
The arms in the Wappen-Sammlung (1900)
The arms in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
The arms in the Abadie albums
The arms as shown in 1963
The arms as shown around 1970
The arms on a postcard
The arms as shown in 1994

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