Marek Adamczewski

In 1847 historians and heraldists connected with Heraldry of the Kingdom of Poland prepared an album with 456 designs of coats of arms of cities located in the Russian partition. Among the signs designed then was the coat of arms of Rychwał. The coat of arms of a historical town - including the coat of arms of Rychwał - should refer to the signs used by this town in the past. Heraldists, dealing with municipal coats of arms, therefore turn to old seals or other sources that allow them to reconstruct a forgotten coat of arms. However, the researchers of the Heroldia of the Kingdom of Poland in 1847 did not find a seal of Rychwał from the period before the fall of the first Polish state. Thus, they did not know the historical town sign of Rychwał and for this reason they have prepared a completely new coat of arms. The inspiration for the new coat of arms of Rychwał came from the ruins of the manor house of the owner of Rychwał from the pre-partition period and the coat of arms of the owner of Rychwał from the time of creating the new coat of arms. City coat of arms of Rychwał from 1847, due to the lack of knowledge about the historical city coat of arms, was accepted. We find it in heraldic publications. Finding the historical town seal of Rychwał, which took place in modern times, was a turning point in the history of the coat of arms of this city. The historical town sign of Rychwał, which is evident from the found seal, was a tree trunk with sharply pointed branches. Coat of arms from 1847, in view of finding a source with a historical sign, was rejected. Currently work is underway to explain the origin and meaning of the symbolism contained in the tree trunk with pointed (sharpened) branches, which in the pre-partition period was the sign of Rychwał.

In May 1926 an unveiled commemorating monument stayed in Słupca of insurgents and soldiers from Słupca of killeds in fights about 2nd. Independence of the Republic. In 1940 the monument to insurgents and soldiers from Słupca was destroyed by Germans, and on for its place flowers were planted. In 1946 flowery flower beds were replaced with the monument raised for commemorating Soviet soldiers who died in January 1945 in fights for Słupca and in other clashes with Germans in the vicinity of the city. In 1997 authorities of Słupca took decision to reconstruct the monument from 1926 on its ancient place. As a result of the decision of contemporary authorities of Słupca a monument was made. The monument resembles commemorating the original version from 1926, but is not the reconstruction of the historical object. A form of the emblem of the Republic which was put is meriting attention on monument from 1997 In many details the eagle from 1997 differs from the eagle which stayed used for adding first commemorating lustre to. Designing monument to insurgents and from Słupca from 1926 the yr reached soldiers after one among many of specimens of the eagle symbolizing Poland reviving 1915-1918 in years. From the monument from 1926 it is possible to categorize the eagle to groups of Polish eagles historyzujących, that is of eagles appealing to the stylization from past of historical periods. Eagle from Słupca from 1926 stylized was to the Gothic eagle in for variety of Casimir’s and Jagiellonian style

Legal conditioning from 1935 decided, that masters of the Guild of Painters and varnishers from Kalisz in 1936 had described the project of the guild banner with the request for approving its by the competent authority administrative. It is interesting project mainly due to the form of two ideas used for building the iconographic transmission right of both the left hand of the badge, i.e. the Polish national eagle and the coat of arms of Kalisz. The designer of the flag used the Polish national emblem for building for the right side of the banner, but he processed the historical form of the Eagle of the White, and in this respect probably a cubism was an inspiration. Planes a coat of arms of Kalisz was processed from the banner of painters and varnishers. The designer with straight and collapsing sharply lilies deleted the municipal wall, towers and the guard, specially his dress. He created the coat of arms of Kalisz different to the heraldic traditional form, but cohesive from „cubist” with eagle on the right of banner.

In December 2014 the Polish Parliament adopted the resolution to commemorate Jan Długosz by making the year 2015 “The year of Jan Długosz”. This was to celebrate the chronicler’s 600th birthday. This event was particularly stimulating for historians and regionalists from Wieluń, a town near which the Długosz family estate was located. What is more, Jan Długosz senior, the father of the chronicler, fought in the Battle of Grunwald in the Wieluń unit. Furthermore, the parents of the chronicler are buried in the crypt of the Wieluń collegiate church. In 2015, Wieluń hosted exhibitions, an academic conference and a competition. A themed installation was constructed near the remnants of the Wieluń parish church. The organizers of the events also commemorated the Year of Jan Długosz by minting a commemorative medal: “The Year of Jan Długosz in the Wieluń Region (2015)”. The article describes the medal and the circumstances surrounding its creation in detail.