Mieroszów

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MIEROSZÓW

Province: Dolny Śląsk
County: Wałbrzych

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were officially adopted in 1997.

The arms show now a boar in a city gate. Until 1997 the boar was a hedgehog which supposedly was canting for the fact that in late medieval times there was a fortress named Iglau (Igel=German for hedgehog) on the spot of the present city.

The municipal stamp shown in 1892	The arms in the Kaffee Hag albums +/- 1925
The arms as shown in 1963	The arms as shown around 1970
The arms as shown in 1994

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