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Stara Lysa, Czech Republic

Nymburk okres, Central Bohemian region

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[Stará Lysá flag] by Jarig Bakker, 18 May 2004
adopted 9 Dec 2002 See also:

Stará Lysá flag

Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí ČR (2002) - Stará Lysá, Nymburk district, Central Bohemian region - adopted 9 Dec 2002 - the red field with its charge is identical to that of the flag of Rozhovice, Chrudim district.
Jarig Bakker, 18 May 2004

What does the black and yellow quartered flag on this central panel represent?
James Dignan, 7 Jun 2004

Stara Lysa Flag looks familiar to me (although I didn´t  see it before). Such lion with quartered banner was part of the Arms of an interesting personage, called Count Franz Anton Sporck.
His ancestor Johann was a tall and strong man of ordinary origin (his father was a farmer - it is said), who entered in 16-th Cent the Army of Catholic League, fought in the Battle at White Mountain  (1620- Bílá Hora), where the Bohemian States Uprising  was defeated by Hapsburgs. And Johann  Sporck was 1647 made Fortune in Thirty-years War,  was promoted to Imperial Colonel, a Baron (Freiherr) and the Emperor gave a great estate in middle Bohemia on Elbe (Labe) River. 1664 he became Count. Above mentioned Franz Anton (1694 - 1738), Johann´s son,  was "a friend of Arts and Sciences". In Lysá nad Labem (not in Stará Lysá) he had founded a picture gallery and great library. In Kuks next to D