Wisla coat of arms

The first symbol, which can be considered as the coat of arms of the Vistula River, appeared in the early 18th century - it is known from the document of 1732, where the seal of the Vistula was found. There is a simple wooden house, built of logs and covered with a sloping roof. Around the legend was: WEICHSEL ANNO 1702. On another footprint with the same legend, the coat of arms looks different - from the cabin were only the outlines of three boards forming the roof, parts of the base and part of the back wall. Most likely it is the same seal that did not bounce well or was deliberately altered. This change was to take place in the middle of the 18th century, when during the counter-reformation period to punish evangelicals living in the Vistula, the old symbol was transformed into the letter L, meaning Lutheran.

Following the tolerant patent of 1781, the seal was apparently still used, forgetting the "punishing" emblem or interpreting it as a reversed letter V (Vistula). At the end of the 19th century the coat of arms disappeared from communal stamps, but the Polish inscriptions appeared; similarly (the only stamped seal) was in the period of the Second Republic. The return of the historical coat of arms was postulated by the specialist of coat of arms and stamps by M. Gumowski - according to him, the historical symbol of the municipality was the inverted letter V (Vistula), which could also be considered as L. Under the letter it was like a ground with tufts of grass.

During the Nazi occupation, a plant ornament appeared instead of the old coat of arms, and the legend re-appeared in German: Gemeindeamt Weichsel. Later, instead of the ornament, the Nazis were gaping.

In 1962, the Vistula was granted city rights - the coat of arms was emblem proposed by M. Gumowski. The official interpretation was of a reversed red letter L in a white box below which was a green turf with five tufts of grass.

In 1990, the coat of arms was changed. Visible on the coat of arms, the yellow letter "V" comes from the Latin name Vistula, and the three snakes above it on the right symbolize the rivers: White and Black Wisełka and the stream of Malinka. Below is a green grass with five clumps of grass. The heraldic mistake is to place the inscription "Wisła" above the coat of arms.

The author of the new coat was Jan Herma.

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