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![[Schwaz]](../images/a/at-t-swz.gif)
by M. Schmöger, 8 November 2009
| Name of municipality: | Schwaz |
| Status: | Stadtgemeinde (town) |
| Land (state): | Tirol (Tyrol) |
| Bezirk (district): | Schwaz |
| Description of arms (German): | In silbernem Schild ein rot-silbern-rot geteiltes Schildhaupt, darunter das Bergwerkszeichen Schlägel und Eisen. [1] |
| Blazoning of arms (English): | Argent, hammer and mallet in saltire Sable, under a chief Gules charged with a fess Argent. |
| Adoption date of arms: | 28 April 1899, based on an older arms |
| Description of flag: | two stripes, black-white, with coat-of-arms [1] [2] [3] [4]; white-red according to [5] |
| Adoption date of flag: | 19 May 1981 (?) |
| Sources: | [1] [kfb95] [2] photos by M. Schmöger, 26 October 2009 [3] photo by Stefan Schwoon, 26 May 2007 [4] http://www.bluatschink.at/_bilder/vomp4.jpg [5] list of Austrian municipal colours, by Jan Miller, 18 February 1965/ 16 April 1965/ 24 June 1965 (archive Arnold Rabbow) |
