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Bősárkány is a large village in Csorna district of Győr-Moson-Sopron county.
The name Bősárkány first appears in writing in 1222 in a deed granting the neighboring Maglóca as “villa Sarkan.”
The name of the village may derive from a personal name derived from the common noun “sárkány” (dragon) or a geographical name.
It was granted by Louis I in 1378 to the Carthusian monks of Somogy, but they exchanged it for other Somogy estates in 1390.
King Sigismund then granted it to members of the Kanizsay family. The feuding villages of the noble families also suffered from their own conflicts.
The Turkish army marching against Vienna also ravaged the villages of Rábaköz in 1529.
The people of the villages along the Hanság River were able to escape them to the islands of the marshland.
The village only slowly recovered from the Turkish devastation. According to the 1584 census, only 5 families lived in the village. They primarily lived from fishing.
Zoltan Horvath, 24 January 2025
The flag is white with its coat of arms placed in the center of the flag. Above the coat of arms is the inscription BőSáRKáNY in Gothic letters, and below it is the year 1222.
A wavy light blue band runs along the middle of the flag. The flag is bordered by red-green wolf teeth on upper and lower side. Ratio is 1:2.
The inscription and the year are a reference to the history of the village. Bősárkány was first mentioned in 1222 in a charter issued by Andrew II.
The light blue wavy line symbolizes the Rábca River, which crosses the village border.
The white flag decorated with red and green wolf teeth, recalling the flags of the 1848-49 War of Independence, reminds us of the sacrifice of the Bősárkány freedom fighter,
during which the villagers actively took part in the fight against the Austrian imperial troops, and for these 5 locals paid with their lives,
and the village was burned down by the enemy.
The flag of municipality was adopted by Local Government Decree No. 8/1995. (X.19.) issued on 19 October 1995.
https://www.bosarkany.hu/jelkepek/cimer-zaszlo-rendelet.pdf
Images of flag:
https://www.papaihuszar.hu/images/stories/bosarkany.jpg
https://www.bosarkany.hu/jelkepek/zaszlo.htm
Zoltan Horvath, 24 January 2025
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 24 January 2025
The coat of arms is a blue shield, on which two natural fish are placed one on top of the other in the form of a St. Andrew's Cross.
A six-pointed silver star is depicted at the top and bottom. Behind the fish, a natural image of a cattail is visible on the right and left.
The oval shield is surrounded by a golden baroque frame.
The blue field refers to the Hanság, a water-covered area that once surrounded the village, which provided special sources of livelihood for the people who lived here in past centuries.
These are symbolized by the other elements of the coat of arms: the fish and the reed.
The stars, beyond tradition, express the hopes and faith of the people living in this region in the future.
After all, people have considered the stars as a guide and a guiding sign for thousands of years; this was also the case in ancient Hungarian folk tradition.
The image of the reed is a new element of the coat of arms, expressing the centuries-old cottage industry of reed weaving in Bősárkány.
In the coat of arms, the reed appears as a plant, depicting its essential features and not as the harvested raw material for reed weaving.
So the mace-bearing cattail is also meant to express that this is how this plant passed on life in the marshy world of the Hanság,
thereby providing raw material for one of the sources of livelihood for the people living here.
The coat of arms is united by a golden baroque frame, which comes from the coat of arms of our last lordly owners, the Esterházys.
The coat of arms was adopted by the same Local Government Decree.
Image of coat of arms:
https://www.bosarkany.hu/jelkepek/cimer.htm (website of settlement)
Zoltan Horvath, 24 January 2025
