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====Origin/meaning==== | ====Origin/meaning==== | ||
The arms were officially granted on July 15, 1546. | The arms were officially granted on July 15, 1546. | ||
The settlement was founded in 1516 by Count Stephen Slik in the vicinity of silver ore mines. Four years later King Louis I promoted the settlement to the status of a free mining town and at the same time granted it a coat-of-arms which was changed in 1546 at the occasion of the elevation of Jáchymov to the status of a royal mining town by King Ferdinand I. This is reflected by the crowned Bohemian lion placed in two sections of the quartered shield. A structure with a conically shaped roof and housing a winch above the mouth of the pit refers to mining. In the center of the shield there are crossed mining hammers placed on the Austrian coat-of-arms. | |||
The shield is may be supported by the patron saints of the town St. Jachym and St. Ann. | |||
{|align="center" | {|align="center" | ||
|align="center"|[[File:jachymov.hagcs.jpg|center]] <br/>The arms in the [[Znaky Republiky Ceskoslovenské|Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1930 | |align="center"|[[File:jachymov.hagcs.jpg|center]] <br/>The arms in the [[Znaky Republiky Ceskoslovenské|Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1930 | ||
|align="center"|[[File:jjachymovcaka.jpg|center|400 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] The arms by Jan Čaka (1977) | |||
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