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Flag of Novigrad Podravski - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 February 2003
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The municipality of Novigrad Podravski is located about 15 km south-south-east of Koprivnica. It has some 3,300 inhabitants.
Željko Heimer, 23 February 2003
The symbols of Novigrad Podravski are described in the Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Novigrad Podravski, adopted on 24 August 2001 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 28 August 2001 in the County official gazette Službeni glasnik Koprivnicko-križevacke županije, No. 10, although they were adopted earlier.
The current Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Novigrad Podravski, adopted on 29 June 2009 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 16 August 2009 in Službeni glasnik Koprivnicko-križevacke županije, No. 10, repeat the description of the symbols.
In 1995, the municipality was "the first one in the County that has adopted its coat of arms and flag 'in accordance with the heraldic rules'". The symbols were designed by Draženka Jalšić (Glas Podravine, 14 July 1995
The symbols were approved by the Ministry of Administration on 13 July 1995, as reported by D. Ernečić.
The flag is in proportions 1:2, white with the coat of arms next to the hoist.
The flag shown in 2003 in an exhibition held in Koprivnica has the coat of arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 19 December 2009
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Coat of arms of Novigrad Podravski - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 February 2003
The coat of arms is "Gules, a castle with a tower embattled argent isuant from a base vert and on it a barrulet wavy of the second".
The castle is the Barun Scholten Tower (kula barnua Scholtena), and the wavy line refers to creek Komarnica.
In 1971, Novigrad Podravski adopted a coat of arms designed by the painter Josip Turković (Glas Podravine, 10 December 1971).
Željko Heimer, 11 August 2009
In 1995, the cultural "Ivan vitez Trnski" Society consecrated its flag, picturing the coat of arms of its namesake, the officer and poet Trnski. The streamers are ornamented with the embroidered coats of arms of the Trnski famiy and of Novigrad Podravski (Glas Podravine, 9 December 2005).
Željko Heimer, 11 August 2009