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Ivanic-Grad (Zagreb, Croatia)

Grad Ivanic'-Grad

image by Željko Heimer, 9 June 2004

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Overview

Coat of Arms - Azure a tower argent between two liliy bushes. As far as I am aware, Ivanic-grad hasn't adopted official symbols but has a traditional coat of arms that is used occasionally (among others in touristic materials issued by the County, as well as on the County web-pages). For what I am aware, they are not used on flags.
Željko Heimer, 14 November 2002

Ivanic-Grad (Ivanic/-Grad) is a city some 20 km. south-east of Zagreb. It counts 13,500 inhabitants, half of that number living in the urban area itself. Until 1997 Ivanic-Grad was part of Sisak and Moslavina County, at first (until mid 1993) with community status.
In the mean time the flag was reported, that probably means that the formal aproval by the Ministry was received. The flag is blue with the white bordered coat of arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 8 June 2004

The new pages of the City of Ivanic-Grad contain some historical data on the flag and Coat of Arms of the city (in Croatian only, here is my translation): " The oldest historical data on use of the seal of the Free Market Ivanic Grad is from 17th century. The symbolic and contents of the seal is preserved in a document from 1664. The seal is circular, containing in the middle a stone-massoned tower on a wide basement. The tower is topped with embattlements, and has opened doors. On both sides of it are three stalks of flowering lilies. Along the outer rim is inscription "S COMMUNIT TATIS DE IVANICH" (seal of the community of Ivanic).
The seal contents my be connected with the location of Ivanic Grad on an Island in Lonja filed, where this old city stood surrounded with marshes of flowering lilies. The tower is beyond any doubt symbol of defence significance of the city, confirmed from the erection of oldest fortresses by Zagreb's bishops until the Renaissance impenetrable castle during the most critical years of Turkish raids.
New city coat of arms and seal are in use since 1792 when the new city magistrate was established, initially used with german inscription "MILITAR-COMMUNITAT FESTUNG IVANIC" (Carsko-kraljevska vojna opcina Ivanic i.e. Imperial-Royal Military Community of Ivanic). After 1872 the inscription was replaced with Croatian one.
In that new coat of arms there is no ancient symbolic. The new coat of arms preserved in seals on numerous docuemnts of the city administration and stone-carved still standing on the city magistrate building in Ivanic, retained oval shape, the central symbolic of the old tower with opened doors, onto which is set the Croatian coat of arms, above it the royal crown and a cross. This is supopirted with two imperial girfins. The inscription reads " POGLAVARSTVO GRADA IVANIC TVRÐE " (Magistrate of the City of Ivanic Fortress). The flag is blue with white bordered coat of arms in the middle."
Unfortunately, this last sentence seems to have been added quite "irresponsibly". It does not give us any clude as to when it was introduced and how come that it is described beside the "new coat of arms" which it surely never included. Therefore we may not take this article to provide anything about the flag beside the fact that it is nowdays used as "blue with white bordered coat of arms in the middle".
The drawing of the currently used flag design differs in small details from my drawing above. The drawing of the Coat of Arms is there shown as "negative" (i.e. blue elements on white background), but I believe that this is just one of the "printing options" and not the Coat of Arms in its "full colours".
Željko Heimer, 13 May 2007

Coat of Arms

image by Željko Heimer, 14 November 2002

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