Flag

 
The colours of Bydgoszcz are, from the top: white, red and blue, which form equal, horizontal stripes in a rectangle with walls ratio 8:5. The city's crest occupies the flag's central place.

Crest

In the past, only settlements with civic rights bestowed by the king had the right to their own crest. The history of the city's present symbol dates back to the year 1346. The first descriptions of the crest of Bydgoszcz refer however to the image placed in a seal on one of Cistercian documents from the year 1362. Based on the descriptions of the oldest crest of Bydgoszcz preserved up to this day, one can assume that it did not differ significantly from the present image of the city's symbol.

In the collections of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, one can find a municipal seal from ca. the 16th century, which belongs to the oldest historical items of this type in Poland! It depicts a crenellated city wall, a half-opened gate, and three keeps.

The contemporary image of the crest of Bydgoszcz is recorded in the City's Statute: "In a white field there is a red crenellated city wall, with a gate and three keeps, with the central one being higher and bigger. In each keep, one can see an arched window, whereas keep roofs are blue with golden balls. On the ball of the middle keep, there is a golden wind direction indicator turned to the right side. A gate with a lifted golden portcullis is seen in the wall. The right gate wing is open, and the gate opening is silver. The gate wings are blue and ferrules are golden."

Bugle-call

The bugle-call of Bydgoszcz based on the motif of the Kashubian cheer was composed in 1946 by an eminent musicologist and composer - professor Konrad Pałubicki (1910-1992). It was selected through a competition organised on the 600th anniversary of the bestowal of civic rights on Bydgoszcz. It was played by a trumpeter four times a day, at 9.00 a.m., noon, 3.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m. The last musician playing the bugle-call from the tower of the Church of the Assumption was Henryk Drążek. Since 1993, the bugle-call has been played from a digital carrier and resounds from the tower three times a day, at noon, 3.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m.