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Petrijanec (Municipality, Varaždin County, Croatia)

Flag of Petrijanec - Image by Željko Heimer, 15 February 2003

Presentation of Petrijanec
Flag of Petrijanec
Coat of arms of Petrijanec

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Presentation of Petrijanec

The Municipality of Petrijanec is located about 25 km north-west of Varaždin, up river Drava. The main settlement, Pertijanec, had about 4,700 inhabitants in 1993.

Željko Heimer, 15 February 2003

Flag of Petrijanec

The symbols of Petrijanec are described in the Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Petrijanec, adopted on 27 March 2002 by the Municipality Assembly and published in the County official gazette Službeni vjesnik Varaždinske županije, No. 6.
The municipal website includes several graphic representations of the coat of arms and some photos of the flag in use.

The flag of Petrijanec is in proportions 1:2, horizontally divided blue-white-blue with the coat of arms in the middle. The Statutes determine that the coat of arms should enter the blue stripes up till 1/3 of their width.

This is among the rare example of non-monocolored municipal flags in Croatia. What is the reason for it, and if this was approved by the Ministry I do not know. I can only speculate that it was, since it is repeated in 2002 Statutes - the symbols must have been adopted earlier, and it is obviously used by the municipality. Possibly it was adopted before the Ministry issued guidelines requiring monocolor flags, or they may be some historical precedence to allow it.
Regarding the shade of blue, it seems that on all drawn images it is light, but as it appears on the photo of the flag used in front of the Municipality Hall, dark blue is used, equal to the blue in the national flag hoisted next to it.

The ceremonial flag is prescribed to be the same with a golden fringe on three edges.

Željko Heimer, 15 February 2003

Coat of arms of Petrijanec

Coat of arms of Petrijanec - Image by Željko Heimer, 15 February 2003

The coat of arms of Petrijanec is "Checky of nine gules and argent and overall an oval escutcheon bordered with a golden Croatian wattle, in white field black lined the Municipality Hall on a green base with a blue spring".
The central red square of the checky field is not visible, so it may have as well been blazoned as "Gules a cross argent", but the description in the Statutes is clear that it is a 3 x 3 checky field. The oval wattle is, as far as I could judge, exactly the same as the one used in the military emblems (cf. the naval positional flags for the Minister of Defense and others of the sort).

Željko Heimer, 15 February 2003