Gryfice

GRYFICE

Province: Pomorze Zachodnie
County: Gryfice

Official blazon
Polish	blazon wanted
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms show the canting griffin (Greif in German) of Pommerania, as the city is part of Pommerania.

The oldest 14^th century seals already show a griffin, or a fleur de lis. But already from a later, but still 14^th century seal the symbols are combined. On some seals the griffin stands in or above a river, the Rega. The main arms thus never changed since.
In the late 18th or early 19^th century the arms were augmented with two savages as supporters and on top of the shield a helmet, with as a crest a fleur-de-lis between two banners. In the end of the last century these additions were no longer in use.

In 1963 the arms were shown on a blue field, just as the arms of Szczecin, the capital of the province and of Pommerania. A hand-written footnote in my sourcebook hover mentions that this is a mistake and that the field should be silver as in the old arms.