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LÁZNĚ LIBVERDA
Province: Liberecký Kraj
District (Okres) : Liberec
Official blazon
V modrém štítě zlaté zřídlo se dvěma stříbrnými prameny, přeložené červeným srdcem. Na pramenech kráčející zlatý kohout s červenou zbrojí.
Origin/meaning
The arms were registered on March 18, 2003.
The town is a spa town and in the town there is a famous spring, covered with a cupola on which is placed a rather fat rooster. This is all based on a local (15th or 16th century) legend of a rooster discovering the acidic health spring in the village. This is also symbolised in the arms showing a fountain with a rooster. The heart is a canting element, the old German name was Liebwerda and Lieb(e) means love.
The legend goes as follows:
Once long, long ago, the old trail led through the wild, empty woods, used only by the rangers, and there was nothing but rocks, forests, clouds, and forests with deep valleys rippling with abundant streams. In those ancient times, where Libverda is today there was only a swampy valley in which a broad fen, sometimes a swamp, stretched along the stream. Even back then, the place was the home of the "salikvarda", that is, a ranger who did not walk along the sentry border path like other rangers, but lived there permanently and provided to fellow rangers an inn and accommodation after a tiring patrol. He had a cottage, a few fields around, a meadow, a backyard, and in the yard pigs who flourished there - and lots of hens, ruled by a cockerel.
One beautiful day, the cockerel began to grow fat, as if someone had cast a spell on it. The salikvarda, his wife and children started to notice this, so they began to observe the enchanted cockerel. They watched him until they found out that the greedy rooster did not go to the stream to drink like the chickens, but to the wetland near the trail, a wetland that was highly inaccessible and overgrown with thickets of trees and bushes, where it was dangerous to go because the ground shifted and rocked under your feet. But the cockerel can walk across mud because it's not heavy, however fat it gets. The salikvarda shook his head and wondered what sort of water it could be to make the cockerel so fat - and that wasn't all. The cockerel was growing old, but was still robust and full of life, but he wouldn't last for a hundred years, so one day he died. When the salikvarda cut him open - he stopped in amazement. His size wasn't due to fatness, but the huge size of his innards. He decided to try the water on himself. He cut his way through to the well, whose surface was exploding with large bubbles. He, too, got fat and was healthy. After a while the salikvarda could not keep the well secret, and so all the rangers went to drink from the well. They gave the place the name Libverda, and that's where the legend ends.
 Seal from around 1900 |
 The local fountain |
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Literature : Image obtained from here. Background send by mail, Source: Lázně Libverda - historie a současnost perly Jizerských hor.