Cieszyn CoA on Town Hall / Herb Cieszyna na ratuszu - Cieszyn (Poland)
N 49° 44.897 E 018° 37.995
34U E 329505 N 5513332
Depicted stucco CoA of town Cieszyn you can find on the front facade of Classicist Town Hall located in the main Cieszyn' public space - Rynek (The Square).
Waymark Code: WMMHY6
Location: Śląskie, Poland
Date Posted: 09/25/2014
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Depicted stucco CoA of town Cieszyn you can find on the front facade of Classicist Town Hall located in the main Cieszyn' public space - Rynek (The Square).
The CoAs of towns Cieszyn (Poland) and Ceský Tešín (Czech Republic) are heraldically identical, only difference is in the shield shape and in absence of eagle's crown in Ceský Tešín' CoA.
The building of the Cieszyn Town Hall (Ratusz w Cieszynie) has long and interesting history with many rebuildings and reconstructions after serious fire damages in the last 500 years. Its current appearance is the result of the last reconstruction (1846) after great fire which devastated town in 1836.
Cieszyn (Czech: Tešín, German: Teschen) is a border-town and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies opposite Ceský Tešín in Czech Silesia. The town has about 36 100 inhabitants (as of 2013). The town is situated on the Olza River, a tributary of the Oder River, which forms the border with the Czech Republic. Cieszyn is the heart of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, the southeasternmost part of Upper Silesia. Until the end of World War I in 1918 it was a seat of the Dukes of Teschen. In 1920 Cieszyn Silesia was divided between the two newly created states of Poland and Czechoslovakia, with the smaller western suburbs of Teschen becoming part of Czechoslovakia as a new town called Ceský Tešín. The larger part of the town joined Poland as Cieszyn. Three bridges connect the twin towns. After Poland and the Czech Republic joined the European Union and its passport-free Schengen zone, border controls were abolished and residents of both the Polish and Czech part could move freely across the border. Both Polish and Czech part of the city have 61 201 inhabitants. [wiki]