Flag of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship

The flag of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, is a yellow (golden) rectangle with the left-faced black eagle, with a white (silver) crescent-shaped wingcloth put across its wings, with a white (silver) cross pattée on top of it, in its middle.

Flag of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Proportion5:8
Adopted30 March 2001 (first flag)
17 December 2009 (current flag)
DesignYellow (golden) rectangle with the left-faced black eagle, with a white (silver) crescent-shaped wingcloth put across its wings, with a white (silver) cross pattée on top of it, in its middle.

Design

Current flag

The current flag of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship has been used since 2009. It is a yellow (golden) rectangle with the aspect ratio of height to width of 5:8. In it centre is placed a left-faced black eagle, with a white (silver) crescent-shaped wingcloth put across its wings, with a white (silver) cross pattée on top of it, in its middle. It also has white (silver) eye.[1] The eagle has an aspect ratio of its height equal 7/10 to the height of the flag, and 3/5 of its width to the width of the flag.[2] The eagle had been adopted from the coat of arms of the voivodeship,[1] which itself, was based on the coat of arms of Lower Silesia, originally introduced in 1224 by Henry II the Pious, duke of Silesia.[3]

Between 2008 and 2009, the flag used an almost identical design, with slightly different eagle, based on then-used coat of arms.[4]

First flag (2001–2008)
The flag used from 2001 to 2008.

The first flag of the voivodeship, that was used between 2001 and 2008, was rectangle with the aspect ratio of height to width of 5:8. It was divided into two equally-sized horizontal stripes, white on the top, and red on the bottom, inspired by the red-and-white flag of Poland, with a coat of arms of the voivodeship in the centre. The coat of arms depicted left-faced black eagle, with a white (silver) crescent-shaped wingcloth put across its wings, with a white (silver) cross pattée on top of it, in its middle. The charge was placed in the yellow (golden) Iberian style escutcheon, with black outline.[2][5]

History

The first flag of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship had been established on 30 March 2001 by the Lower Silesian Regional Assembly, with the resolution no. XXXIII/555/2001. The flag was a rectangle divided into two equally-sized horizontal stripes, white on the top, and red on the bottom, inspired by the red-and-white flag of Poland, with a coat of arms of the voivodeship in the centre, which depicted a left-faced eagle, with a white (silver) crescent-shaped wingcloth put across its wings, with a white (silver) cross pattée, placed the yellow (golden) Iberian style escutcheon.[2][5]

The design contradicted the convention followed by all other voivodeships of Poland, according to which, colours of the flag should have been based only on those present in the coat of arms of the voivodeship. As such, in January 2008, a commission was established to create a proposals for the new flag. In an internet vote, 3/4 of the participants did not liked any of the proposed flags. In mid-October 2008, the discussion over the adoption of the new flag has been blocked. Following that, then voivodeship marshal Marek Łapiński, proposed a new design of the flag, which had been approved by the Regional Assembly on 30 October 2008, in the resolution no. XXXI/496/08.[2][6]

Following the negative opinion of the Heraldic Commission, the Region Assembly had modified the design of the eagle charge featured in the coat of arms and the flag, with the new design being approved on 23 July 2009,[7] and officially established on 17 December 2009.[8]

  • The flag used from 2001 to 2008.
  • The flag used from 2008 to 2009.
  • The flag used since 2009.

References
  1. "Zasady używania herbu i flagi". umwd.dolnyslask.pl (in Polish).
  2. Zpravodaj Vexilologie, vol. 151. March 2009.
  3. Alfred Znamierowski: Insygnia, symbole i herby polskie : kompendium. Warsaw: Świat Książki, 2003, p. 87. ISBN 83-7311-601-X.
  4. Resolution no. XXI/298/08 of the Lower Silesian Regional Assembly from 30 March 2001.
  5. Vexilokontakt, vol. 13. 2005.
  6. Resolution no. XXXI/496/08 of the Lower Silesian Regional Assembly from 30 October 2008.
  7. "W ministerstwie nasz orzeł dostał po łbie". wroclaw.wyborcza.pl (in Polish).
  8. "Dolny Śląsk ma herb i flagę". umwd.dolnyslask.pl (in Polish).
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