National and historical symbols of Hungary

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.

The Coat-of-Arms of the Village of Katymár [** ¤]
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Katymár

(The County of Bács-Kiskun)

The village of Katymár got probably populated in the first half of the 14th century, after the Mongol invasion. Its first mention was related to a legal case whereby a horse was stolen by a Cuman, while another document from 1406 relates violent action at the market of Baja against serfs coming from the village.

The coat-of-arms is a spade shield, the base curved to a point. The charge depicts the Annunciation scene from the Holy Bible (Luke 1:26-38): an interior walled vert, the floor chequy of sable and or; on the dexter a door framed gules in which, issuing from cloudlets argent, an angel is borne displayed, habited argent, crined gules, with hands folded in prayer. In middle chief, surmounting an aureole or rayonnant with ten rays a dove proper, abaissé. On the sinister of the field a window azure framed and cross-barred gules, partly covered by a curtain argent, tasselled gules. In base and partly in fess, reaching to the fess point a woman in pale, habited and veiled azure, kneeling on a cushion with corners tasselled, all gules; her hands folded in prayer, her eyes directed at the angel, her veil ornamented by a trimming gules and argent, round her head an aureole or.

The coat-of-arms is incomplete, as long as it is not ornamented by either a helmet or any mantling. The charge is by tradition a depiction emblazoned on an ancient church banner, and the heraldic features match the tinctures of the original representation. The use of this charge is well justified by the Christian past and present of the people of Katymár.

It is also this symbolic representation by which Katymár is on the one hand part of the country as a whole, whereas on the other hand it keeps separate from it. The signs specific to the place enhance in the dwellers an awareness of relatedness and the love of the motherland, and they help them in their mutual efforts to make their village prosperous. God grant that it be so.

Pictuers:

1. The Roman Catholic church

2. The school

3. The post office

4. The kindergarden for national minorities