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Kerepes is a town in in Gödöllő district of Pest county, in Budapest metropolitan area.
It was first mentioned in a document in 1148, as “Kerepesi-rév” (kerep: old Hungarian word; meaning: ship, boat).
The church of St. Nicholas may have been built in the early 1400s.
During the Tatar invasion of 1596, the population completely died out or fled, and the village was only resettled later, in 1620.
In 1867, it became a Hungarian royal crown estate.
On December 31, 1978, Kistarcsa and Kerepes were united under the name Kerepestarcsa.
From December 11, 1994, Kerepes and Kistarcsa became independent settlements again. In the years following the millennium,
Kerepes tried in vain to obtain the title of city for a long time, and was finally declared a city on July 15, 2013.
Zoltan Horvath, 09 January 2025
The flag is white with the coat of arms in the center of the flag, and there is a narrow blue border all around the flag.
The flag was adopted by Municipal Decree No. 16/2019. (IX.4.) on 04 September 2019.
https://www.kerepes.hu/...
Images of flag:
https://vargakobt.hu/asset/galeria/trianon-15.jpg
https://slovakkultura.hu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kerepesi-Pavakor.jpg
Zoltan Horvath, 09 January 2025
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 09 January 2025
The coat of arms of Kerepes is a shield divided into three parts, the upper part is blue and the lower part is red.
On the right side of the upper (blue) field, a black stagecoach is moving slightly to the right, its driver is wearing a red cap and uniform.
On the upper left (blue) field, a tree, a stream and three golden crosses can be seen.
In the lower (red) field, a black ploughshare and a black coulter are embracing a golden sheaf of wheat.
The stagecoach recalls that Kerepes has always been an important traffic junction. The watercourse also points to the past:
the friars of the Buda church received from Géza II as a donation "the tolls of the Pest and Kerepes ports,
as well as those of the ships, whether they are going up with wine and salt or down with other goods".
The tree evokes the memory of the former dense forests and groves of elms, birches, oaks, alders, hazels, and heathers,
but also that on the village seals used in the 18th century, a leafy tree with strong roots occupied the central place.
The three crosses express the unbroken faith of the population, but at the same time indicate the "Calvary Hill" of the settlement,
where an earthen castle probably stood in the 11th century, the village was settled at its foot, and its first medieval church,
dedicated to Saint Nicholas (the patron saint of traveling merchants), was erected on the hilltop.
The red color of the lower field symbolizes the thousand-year blood sacrifice: the Tatar invasion, civil wars,
the series of Turkish campaigns and border castle battles, the heroic victims of the wars of independence, revolutions and world wars.
The wheat field expresses the abundantly productive wealth of the land. The coulter and the plowshare may have already appeared on the village's first seal,
which appeared in 1585; in the 18th century, they were depicted on both sides of the tree that occupied the central position of the seal.
The coat of arms was adopted by the same Municipal Decree in 2019.
Image of coats of arms (website of the town):
https://www.kerepes.hu/
Zoltan Horvath, 09 January 2025
