Coat of arms of Sandomierz Voivodeship
The top half consisted of a red background, featuring white (silver) eagle with a yellow (golden) crown on his head that is turned right, a beak, legs, and a stripes on its wings, with the charge being placed on the red background.
The coat of arms was approved by the viceroy of Poland, Ivan Paskevich, on 5 October 1845, and later, by the tsar or Russia, Nicholas I, on 26 May 1849.
Eventually, the plans for the establishment of the coat of arms had been stopped by the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, on 1 September 1939, that begun the World War II, and were not picked up back after the end of the conflict.
[8][9][10] The proposed design consisted of the Iberian style escutcheon (shield) being divided horizontally into two halves.
The top half consisted of a red background, featuring white (silver) eagle with a yellow (golden) crown on his head that is turned right, a beak, legs, and a stripes on its wings, with the charge being placed on the red background.
It consisted of the Iberian style escutcheon, with square top and rounded base, that is divided in the 2 by 2 chessboard pattern.
The bottom left field features nine yellow six-pointed starts, placed in three rows, each with three stars.
[16][17][18] The historical design of the coat of arms, is currently used as the symbol of Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship.
It consists of the Iberian style escutcheon, with square top and rounded base, that is divided vertically into two fields.
The left field consists of six horizontal stripes, alternating between red and white (silver) colours.
