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Csehi

(Vas County)

The village of Csehi is one of the country’s oldest settlements, the name of which is known to us from as early as the Árpád age. The first written mention of the village’s name goes back to 1217. There are several medieval documents which contain the settlement’s name but there is no reference in them to a village seal.

The seal of the settlement

The first seal prints of the settlement can be found on documents of the late 1850s. The diametre of the circular village seal of that period was 24 millimetres and in the centre a ploughshare was borne as a charge flanked by oak leaves on the dexter side and a myrtle branch on the sinister side. The inscription of the seal read CSEHI. This seal was also used in a painted version. In the 1860s the settlement had a new seal engraved. It was oval with a vinestock in the middle, fructed and issuing from the ground. Above the charge of the vinestock the inscription was as follows: CSEHI HP, that is CSEHI HELYSÉG PECSÉTJE/the seal of the village of Csehi. This seal was in use until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. After this time the administrators of the village used only a simplified seal containing the inscription of the settlement’s name. The first version reads as CSEHI KÖZSÉG VASVÁRI JÁRÁS VAS MEGYE, 1907 (Village of Csehi, District of Vasvár, Vas County, 1907) then in the period when settlements’ names got registered in Hungary the inscription of the village seal was altered to VAS VÁRMEGYE CSEHI KÖZSÉG 1907 (Vas County, Village of Csehi, 1907).

After the changing of the political system in Hungary in 1989 it was in 1993 that the local government of the village of Csehi had the settlement’s coat of arms made and it is still in use. The settlement’s new emblem was inaugurated on April 30, 1995.

Csehi’s coat of arms can be described as follows:

Triangular shield erect and azure. In pale the charge of a church is borne, roofed gules, its spire is adorned with a cross argent. In base on the dexter side a bunch of grapes argent, on the sinister side two ears of corn are borne encouped and also argent. Shield is flanked by a palm branch on the dexter side and an oak branch on the sinister side. Both are vert. Between them a ribbon argent with the settlement’s name CSEHI inscribed in it.

The charges of the settlement’s coat of arms can be interpreted as follows:

When creating the settlement’s coat of arms the motives of Csehi’s 19th century seal were considered and the charge of the village church was added.