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Boleslawiec county (Poland)

Dolnoslaskie vojvodship

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[Boleslawiec county ceremonial flag] by Jens Pattke, 7 Jan 2002 - County flag for official use See also:

Bolesławiec county

This county is in Dolnośląskie vojvodship, in southwest Poland, c. 50 km east of the German border at Görlitz. German name: Bunzlau. The ceremonial flag is on this site. The town of Bolesławiec is on the Bobr river, with c. 50.000 inhabitants. It came to the Bohemian crown in 1392, to Prussia in 1742, and was assigned to Poland by the Potsdam Conference of 1945.
Jarig Bakker, 29 Mar 2001.

Bolesławiec county flag

[Boleslawiec county flag] by Jens Pattke, 15 Dec 2001

I have found another flag of Boleslawiec County (voj. Dolnoslaskie) on this site. Actually, the flag is vertically striped into yellow, red and white. This flag is different from the previously reported flag. This earlier flag was unequal wide striped into blue, red and yellow. The CoA was on the fly-top.
The blue is not available in the actual flag. Actually, the flag is vertically equal striped into yellow, red and white.

There are also differences in the actual coat-of-arms. The actual CoA is on silver shield a black and red divided eagle with heart shield. The earlier shield was divided per fess. In chief on silver a black and red divided eagle issuant with yellow heart shield. In the lower part (base) of the shield per fess is the arms, which represents the coat of arms of the region of Upper Lausitz (Oberlausitz). Upper Lausitz had a coat of arms, which shows a yellow wall on blue shield.
Only a very little part of the region of Upper Lausitz lies in Poland. The major part is situated in Germany, and a small part in the Czech Republic. Therefore one did without the yellow wall of the Upper Lausitz. See actual CoA of County!
I suspect that the earlier flag was a proposal. Perhaps, does anybody have more information?
Jens Pattke, 15 Dec 2001

I received a letter from the administration of Boleslawiec County some weeks ago.  This letter was in Polish. The descriptions of the flags of this county were in the letter.
Translated by Chrystian Kretowicz:
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"The territorial flag of the Self-governing Boleslawiec County is a horizontal, rectangular piece of cloth in proportions of width to length 5 : 8.
That rectangular piece of cloth is divided into three vertical, colored bands. Those colored bands are of equal width and
together amount to the total, horizontal lenght of the