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by Mello Luchtenberg, 1 April 2001
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Cities (not part of the county):
Towns:
Municipalities:
Ratio: 1:2 . Adopted: after 1991 and always hoisted vertically
The arms of A-H county of Fejér (Weisenburg , granted
around 1650) are still used even if now the county has much
larger area.
Zeljko Heimer - from FAME
A very informative page about the flag and the CoA of the
county and its history (now only in Hungarian) - http://www.fejer.hu/tortenelem3.html.
Some informations from the page:
The first mention of Fejér County is from 1009. The counties
were administrative divisions in the 11-13th centuries (Royal
Counties). The counties became communities of the nobles from the
13th century. (Noble Counties) The first information about a
noble county is from 1232 (Zala County). To the 16th century the
counties hadn't got symbols. They use their sheriff's seal.
(sheriff means alispán in Hungarian, the administrative leader
of the community of the county). The first used CoA is from 1490.
This CoA was used by Hunyad County (today Hunedoara County,
Rumania) In 1498 King Vladislas II gave a CoA to Somogy
County. In 1550 the LXII Law decreed " Every counties have
to have seal (...)
In 1550 Zala, Zemplén, Nyitra and Hont counties got CoA. King
Leopold I gave the CoA to Fejér County in 1694. The original
script: "Sigillum Comitatus Albensis" King Ferdinand V.
renewed the CoA in 1837. The script: "Fejér vármegye
petsétje"
The CoA of Fejér County - Description of the
CoA:
On the green field before the blue sky is the kneeling Saint
Stephen with the Holy Crown, sword and sceptre on a red pillow on
his arms. King Saint Stephen makes an offer of Hungary to the
Blessed Virgin - who is in a beaming cloud - holding in her arm a
little Jesus Christ. Under the pillow with the Holy crown there
is the Coat of Arms of Hungary. Version from 1837 ia at: http://www.fejer.hu/images/cimer.GIF
The flag of Fejér County:
The first mention of the flag is from 1747. This flag was
together with the representatives of the county in 1790 (when the
Holy Crown returned to Buda from Vienna), in 1809 (battle with
Napoleon), 1867 (coronation of Francis-Joseph I), 1896 (the
Millenium of the Conquest), 1916 (coronation of Charles IV), 1938
(Millenium of the death of Saint Stephen). In 1949 the communist
government prohibited the municipalities from using their
symbols. On 13th March 1992 the county renewed the old CoA
(script: Fejér megye) and the old flag.
István Molnár, 20 January 2001
The Hungarian flag bulettin Zaszlovilag in number 1 of 1995 on
page 7 there is the flag and CoA shown, but unfortunately, the
description does not refer to the outer ring at all, and the
images are not conclusive (at least in my copy it is not clear if
there is line along letter J and M in the inscription). My only
other source are stamps issued by Hungarian post in 1997, but
these show the Fejer CoA entirely without the outer ring with
inscription.
According to images in Zaszlovilag, there are four stars in the
outer ring. Also, even if that is probably hard to say in this
size of the image, those stars are six-pointed (say: inscribed
circle is 1/3 of the outer circle), each with two points pointing
perpendicularly to the radius of the CoA connecting the center of
the star . Also, probably also not visible due to the scale, the
A in word VARMEGYE should have acute accent.
Zeljko Heimer, 31 March 2001
by István Molnár, 27 August 2001
Flying flag at the Conquest Statue, Opusztaszer NHP. Ratio:
3:1. The width of the CoA is the 1/3 of the width of the flag.
The CoAs is on the 1/3 of the flag's height.
István Molnár, 27 August 2001
by István Molnár, 27 Febuary 2003
Fejér county Millenium flag - swallowtailed.
István Molnár, 27 Febuary 2003
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by Mello Luchtenberg, 1 April 2001
