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![[salt]](../images/p/pl@salt.gif)
by Zach Harden, 22 Mar 2002
Salt mines near Krakow - in the underground chappel there are Polish,Vatican
and miners green over black flags, There is also a white-yellow vertical
banner.
Dov Gutterman, 22 Mar 2002
Adam Kromer was recently in Wieliczka, in the salt mines (as a tourist,
not as a condemned one) and talked to some people
in authority about the Dov's flag on your Polish pages. That flag is
not only for the salt mines but for all the miners, primarily the coalminers,
so numerous in Poland.
To confirm it, he saw (on TV) a lot of recent demonstrations protesting
closures of those mines (Welcome to European Union) where these flags were
in abundance.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 19 Nov 2002
![2]](../images/p/pl-rccv.gif)
by Zach Harden, 22 Mar 2002
Salt mines near Krakow - there is also a white-yellow vertical banner.
Dov Gutterman, 22 Mar 2002
![[Buttons Museum flag]](../images/p/pl@butt.gif)
by Chrystian Kretowicz, 20 Nov 2002
There is, most likely one of a kind, Museum of Buttons in Lowicz, Poland
run by one Jerzy Rutkowski, great authority on ... buttons. The Museum
has its own flag, even if it is rather small institution. The entire collection
fits into a suitcase and is stored in the closet in Mr. Rutkowski's apartment
in Lowicz. The best way to view the significant collection is by the way
of Internet at this webpage, where
the information is presented in both, Polish and English.
The flag is pictured and described at this
webpage.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 20 Nov 2002
![[Bia³owieski National Park]](../images/p/pl@bnp.gif)
by Jens Pattke, 11 Jan 2006, after image on this
site, spotted by Valentin Poposki.
The cited cite states:
"We workers of the Bia³owieski National Park granted with the holy
flag vow to:
- protect nature, all living in Bia³owieski National Park plants and
animals,
- guard the reputation of park, win over followers and friends. With
dignity fulfill professional duties,
- protect and defend our flag, symbol of our unity and devotion to
the service of our Country Rzeczpospolita Polska
On the third of September 2005, the 83rd anniversary of establishment of the Bia³owieski National Park, the 75th anniversary of European bison restitution in Bia³owie¿a Primeval Forest, the 25th anniversary of receiving by our National Park the World Heritage Title the ceremony of awarding and blessing of the Bia³owieski National Park flag in front of the administrative-museum building took place.
The flag was founded by the Association of Local Government of “Puszcza Bia³owieska” Euroregion (Starostwo Powiatowe w Hajnówce, Miasto Hajnówka, Gmina Hajnówka, Gmina Bia³owie¿a, Miasto and Gmina Kleszczele, Gmina Czeremcha, Gmina Czy¿e, Gmina Dubicze Cerkiewne, Wójt Gminy Narew, Gmina Narewka, Gmina Bielsk Podlaski, Orla Gmina).
W³odzimierz Pietroczuk the chairman both of the Hajnówka Administrative District and the Association handed the flag to managing director Józef Popiel. The blessing act was performed by archbishop Leszek S³awoj G³ód¿ - the catholic ordinary of the Polish Army and bishop Miron the orthodox ordinary of the Polish Army. In the ceremony many representatives of the Local Government, the Ministry of Environment, The National Found of Environment Protection and Water Management, Ekofundusz Fund, Pekao S.A. Bank (co-organizer of “¯ubr Year” celebration), “¯ubr” Brand (“¯ubr Year” sponsor) and Bia³owie¿a inhabitants participated. In the name of BNP workers vowed: Anna Gierasimiuk and Andrzej Karczewski.
The flag was designed by a visual aritist Lech Z. Nowacki from Bia³owie¿a. On a green face side there is a picture of two first European bisons brought to Bia³owie¿a Primeval Forest in 1921, above them the inscription- Bia³owieski National Park, and under it the year 1921 (the year of BNP establishment). There were placed also signs of BNP affiliation to the World Heritage Site (since 1979) and to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (since 1977). On the bottom of the flag there is the inscription: “In the service of nature and mankind”. On the reverse there is the image of the Piast eagle. The flag was made in Suwa³ki by Mrs Krystyna Brzeziñska`s company.
The Bia³owieski National Park is the third national park (after Biebrzañski
and Tatrzañski National Park) that can take pride in possessing a flag."
Valentin Poposki, 1 Jan 2006
Isn't Pomorze "Pomerania"?
Pascal Vagnat, 19 May 1999
DAR POMORZA is a Polish sail training ship, so I guess that must be
the flag of the ship...
Robert M J Czernkowski, 21 May 1999
I think, that it could be some flag of ¦wiêtokrzyskie voyevodship. It
had a coat of arms with 7 vertical red/white stripes on right (heraldic)
side of shield and eight golden stars on blue field on left side.
O. Myszor, 20 Nov 2001
If I understand the description clearly, looking at the flag attached
to the pole (on the left for arguments sake) the flag is red on the left
side, white on the right, with a white eagle on the red part. Lodge
or club flags tend to have local symbols, most clubs revolve around a town
or region. If it is Polish, it sounds more like some sort of battle
or naval flag. It wasn't until later centuries, probably about the
18th -19th that the current colors of white on top and red on the bottom
were codified. Tradition says that the early Polish flag was red
on top white on the bottom, until so much blood was shed on Polish soil
that it soaked into the land leaving the sky white. One hint on the
identity of the flag in question would be how the eagle is represented.
The stylization of the eagle seems fairly consistent over long periods
so that it should look similar to the current version. Those are my best
guesses. When I have some time, I'll see if I have any pictures of
flags that look like this one. It might help to know where this flag
was seen.
Michael J Cwik, 8 Aug 2000
My understanding of the description tallies with your supposition: the
flag is divided vertically, the red to the hoist, the white to the fly.
I asked my girlfriend tonight about the eagle charge and she's pretty sure
that it was not holding anything in its claws, but equally she doesn't
think it was crowned, which would tend to identify it as Polish if it was.
Roy Stilling, 8 Aug 2000
The absence of a crown may make this a communist-era flag, if indeed
it is Polish. Unless and until some New Yorker reports more detail on this
flag, we'll have to live with Cwik's guess as a working hypothesis.
Al Kirsch, 9 Aug 2000
I went researching about this flag, & other polish flags, while
doing this I visited FOTW's polish flag page. I discovered this flag to
match the description of the undentified Polish flag: Banner
of President of Republic of Poland 1945-1952.
Joshua Horn, 30 Sep 2001
What would a Polish president be doing in Broadway?
Rob Raeside, 1 Oct 2001