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by Mello Luchtenberg, 1 April 2001
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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.
Željko Heimer - from FAME
A very informative page about the flag and the Coat of Arms of
the county and its history (now only in Hungarian) - <www.fejer.hu>.
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 Coat of Arms is
from 1490. This Coat of Arms 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 Coat of
Arms. King Leopold I gave the Coat of Arms to Fejér County in
1694. The original script: "Sigillum Comitatus
Albensis" King Ferdinand V. renewed the Coat of Arms in
1837. The script: "Fejér vármegye petsétje"
The CoA of Fejér County - Description of the
Coat of Arms:
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 at <www.fejer.hu>.
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 Coat of
Arms (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 Coat of Arms 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 Coat of Arms 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 Coat of Arms connecting the
center of the star . Also, probably also not visible due to the
scale, the A in word VARMEGYE should have acute accent.
Željko Heimer, 31 March 2001
According to <www.mno.hu>,
the General Assembly of Fejér county would like to make new
symbols of the county.
Left the original Coat of Arms , right the Proposed
New "Logo" .
I think the new flag proposal is white with the new
"Logo".
István Molnár, 27 November 2003
by István Molnár, 27 August 2001
Flying flag at the Conquest Statue, Opusztaszer NHP. Ratio:
3:1. The width of the Coat of Arms is the 1/3 of the width of the
flag. The Coat of Arms 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
fen.jpg)
from <www.mno.hu>
