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Grbi slovenskih mest
Slovenian Civic Heraldry
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Slovenian Civic Heraldry
MOZIRJE
Origin/meaning:
The arms were adopted on December 2, 1996.
The upper half of the arms shows a church, which is the historical arms of the town. the lower half showns, in a three-topped mountain, a linden tree. The linden tree is derived from the old arms of
Rečica.
The historical arms were officially granted on Ferbuary 21, 1581 by Emperor Rudolf II. The arms were described as a blue shield with a green hill with thee tops, the middle larger than the other two, with on the middle one a church, with a tower and above each of the smaller hilltops a door and two windows, the tower with two windows and topped with a golden ball, all roofs red. Even though the description is very clear, the arms have been shown differently, with a single tower (not a church tower) on th emiddle hill and two smaller towers on the other hills. These arms were for example shown by Widimski in 1864 and were also used during Yugoslav times and later until 1996.
  
The arms as shown by Widimsky (left), by Kobel (middle) and as used in the 1980s (right)
Literature : Kobel und Pirchegger, 1954; new image from here; Widimsky, 1864
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