The article presents one of the ways to create the contemporary coats of arms for the West-Pomeranian counties, of which the overwhelming majority appeared after the new administrative division of the country in 1999. Only six county coats of arms drew on the pre-war heraldic tradition: Pyrzyce, Choszczno, Myślibórz, Łobez, Świdwin, and Szczecinek. The reception of the German municipal heraldry in the West-Pomeranian Region was carried out in two ways. The fi rst was to take over the pre-war coats of arms and approved it by the County Council; the second – to accept new coats of arms but based on the German antecedents. The fi rst way was used by two counties: Choszczno and Łobez; the second was used by the counties of Myślibórz, Szczecinek, Pyrzyce and Świdwin.
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