Blazon and Flag of Neringa

Blazon shield of Neringa town is divided into 6 black and silver (white) sections. Rectangular sections symbolize Nida‘s, triangulars symbolize Preila‘s, rhombus symbolizes Nida‘s Mires‘, silver section symbolizes Karvaiciai and other sandbound villages‘, the cross symbolizes Juodkrante‘s, and rectangular symbolizes Pervalka village‘s historical weathercocks of fishermen‘s kurenas (national boats). Blue-colored pedestal of the blazon shield reads silver letter „N“, which symbolizes Neringa town. Neringa town was founded in 1961. The town‘s blazon was created in 1967 - 1968 by the artist Arunas Tarabilda. It portrayed the weathercocks of the ships named kurenas of the Curonian Spit villages‘ fishermen. These weathercocks were founded in the middle of the 19th century by Rusne Lagoon Inspectorate.

While preparing a new standard of Neringa‘s blazon, it was discovered that Neringa‘s blazon 1968 had only a partially correct presentation of its elements: Rasyte village, which also had a place designed on this blazon, currently belongs to Russia, and Juodkrante weathercocks previously were only a cross. Therefore, on the request of the residents of Neringa town, it was decided to remove the sign of Rasyte village from the blazon of Neringa town and to portray an empty (silver) section, which would symbolize Karvaiciai and other 16 sandbound villages, which were on the territory of the present Neringa, instead of it.

 

Considering the importance of administrative center of Neringa‘s town Nida and herbal aesthetic appearance of the blazon, the black and silver sections on the blazon were decided to be distributed as follows: On the left upper side, in the first section the signs of the weathercocks of Nida‘s fishermen‘s kurenas are portrayed, below  - the weathercocks of Nida‘s Mire‘s fishermen‘s kurenas are portrayed, and the bottom has the weathercocks of Juodkrante‘s fishermen‘s kurenas portrayed. The first rectangular from the top on the right side of the blazon marks Preila, the empty section below marks Karvaiciai and other sandbound villages, and the bottom section marks Pervalka. Neringa‘s blazon created by A. Tarabilda was corrected, i.e. standard of the corrected blazon was made by architect Ricardas Kristapavicius. Lithuanian Blazonry Committee had approved the new blazon of Neringa town on June 23, 1997. The President of the Republic of Lithuania certified the blazon on February 18, 1997 (decree No. 1209).

 

The flag of Neringa town, which is surrounded by red strip from all the sides, portrays the blazon of Neringa town. It has white (silver) and black colors dominating. Lithuanian Blazonry Committee certified the flag of Neringa town on April 7, 1997. The artist is R. Kristapavicius.