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In "Godło i Barwa Polski Samorządowej - Herbi i Flagi Górnego Śląska
i Zagłębia", Katowice, 1998, are two flags of Rybnik (Śląskie vojvodship):
1. Horizontal tri-band BWV 1:3:1, with the Coat of Arms without frills. Flagproportion:
3:4; flag in use 1968 until 20 Nov 2000.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Sep 2001
2. As above, without Coat of Arms.
The city of Rybnik is situated in Rybnik county, in the southwestern region of the Silesian province and populated by almost 150,000 citizens. In the Middle Ages, Rybnik functioned as a fishermen's settlement. The town was founded under the German law in approximately 1308. The name of the city originates from the ancient Polish word "rybnik" which means "a fishing pond". The large number of ponds that surrounded the city in the past found its reflection in the name of the city and its coat of arms.
The flag of the City of Rybnik contains the coat of arms placed on a
white rectangular background. Along the longer edges of the flag there
are blue bands of the same color as the background of the coat of arms.
Info from the Rybnik
website.
Pascal Gross, 20 August 1999
If I'm not mistaken the image drawn by Pascal Gross in 1999 is more
recent, with the proportions 5:8 (it seems that that becomes the norm for
civic flags in Poland). The horizontal bands are proportioned 1:3:1, while
the Coat of Arms is surrounded
by frills.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Sep 2001
"The coat of arms of the City of Rybnik is a blue shield bearing a diagonally
located picture of fish - a white pike, which is surrounded by a water
chestnut ornament with green stalks and yellow and white flowers. Above
the shield there is a brick crest. Both sides of the sides are richly decorated
with green vegetal filigree. In the lower part of the shield there is a
white band with the city name on it."
The Rybnik City Council resolution 92/XII/91 of January 30, 1991,
Section 5. (info from this
site).
Pascal Gross, 20 August 1999