Tartalmi rész
In this section you can find the crests of almost 2400 settlements of Hungary with notes. Find the starting letter of the settlement in the list and click if you want to see it.
Kacsóta
(Baranya County)
The heraldic description of the coat-of-arms:
The coat-of-arms of the village is a pointed base shield erect azure.
The coat-of-arms bears a coulter and a garb argent (white) headed contourné. Above them a symbolical five-pointed coronet argent, with circle shaped ornaments gules in the coronet and on its tips. The lower part of the coronet is vert and azure. Dexter, between the coronet and the dexter edge of the coat-of-arms, at the level of the lower part vert of the coronet a circle argent, the diameter of which agrees in size with the circles gules in the coronet.
Above the coat-of-arms a vizored helm erect headed contourné. On top a simple, knobbed, five-pointed crest coronet holds together the mantling around the coat-of-arms. The mantling is a stylised, fringed leaf or scarves-like.
The scroll under the coat-of-arms bears the name of the Village.
The everyday description of the coat-of-arms:
The coat-of-arms of the Village is an erect, so-called pointed base shield. (In case of the shield the directions are looked at from the point of view of the “holder of the coat-of-arms”.)
On the shield the coulter and the garb are headed contourné. The latter one together with the coronet is stylised.
Above the coat-of-arms a vizored helm erect headed contourné. On top a simple, knobbed, five-pointed crest coronet holds together the mantling around the coat-of-arms. The mantling is a stylised, fringed leaf or scarves-like.
The scroll under the coat-of-arms bears the name of the Village.
The coulter borne alaisé refers to ploughing, symbolising impregnation and encounter of heaven and earth. It appears in the Bible as well, (Iz 2, 4) as the symbol of peaceful agricultural life, and in Hungarian ethnography together with the ploughshare stands for rich crop.
The garb is a general and typical floral motif on the coat-of-arms, being the symbol of the eternal revival of life. The beliefs concerning the last remaining garb at harvest are widely known in Europe. It is called Big Mother, Old Woman, Witch or Wheat Mother, and used to be identified with the spirit of corp. During different kind of playful rites they used its fertile effect to increase next year’s crop.
In the Bible the wheat grain (Jn 12,24) is the symbol of the dying and resurrecting Saviour, who gives life by his death, as well as the prefiguration of his earthly body since bread, the body of Jesus, is made of wheat.
The coronet (or wreath) is the symbol of being chosen. The circle itself shows perfection and – after all the symbol of heaven is a circle as well – tight relation to heaven. Like a ring, it unites what is above and below, but at the same time it is a boundary mark between heaven and earth. It is expressly the symbol of the power of God as well. In the Bible the coronet is the reward and representation of honesty, happiness, greatness, glory and eschatological (a branch of theology dealing with the fate of the world and its mortality) victory. The Greek name of our first saint king is (Hagios) Stephanos meaning (Sancta) Corona, Saint Coronet in Latin.
The basic colour of the coat-of-arms is azure, the colour of sky, air and water, symbolically referring to purity, truth and faith.
In the original drawing the tincture of the coronet, the ornamental point, the garb, the coulter, the scroll and some of the ornaments on the mantling are argent.
The colour argent is substituted by colour white. The colour white is the symbol of divine light, perfection, cleanness and innocence.
The colour vert of the coronet and the mantling is the colour of nature as well as spring, the hope of resurrection and Paradise and the colour gules is the colour of life.
The scroll bears the name of the Village in simple type, announcing the name of the Village elegantly: KACSÓTA