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On the official web site of the County of Varaždin, <www.varazdinska-zupanija.hr>,
some communities are represented with their coats of arms,
presumably those who have adopted them as yet.
Gornji Kneginec - Gules on a Mount Vert a Tower embatteled Argent
with a barred Window Sable from that is issuing a Hand
properholding Scales Or, in chief a Crown Or and overall a wreath
dexter three Mais Ears Or and sinister a Vine Branch Or. An
unusual one, there must be an interesting story behind it, alas I
don't know it (yet).
Population: 5,000 (Zemljopisni atlas Republike Hrvatske",
Školska knjiga, Zagreb 1993).
Zeljko Heimer, 15 Febuary 2003
As Tomsilav Sipek noticed, the Večernji list (Zagreb dayl?
newspaper) issued a story today in the regional issue for norhern
Croatia a story on the adoption of the new symbols for the
community of Kneginec Gornji. See <www.vecernji-list.hr>.
The adopted symbols are besed on the previous more complicated
symbols. The overcomplicated coats of arms was symplified in
lines with the heraldic practice introduced in the last decade in
Croatia. The flag is (dark) blue with the coats of arms in the
middle.
Also, on the community web site there is the story on the new
symbols (from some days ago when they were only final proposals):
<www.kneginec.hr>.
This story confirms that there in fact was a previous flag of the
community (and that it was not a monocoloured flag) together with
the coats of arms that I reported. The community find out an
appropriate way what to do with the old symbols - they have given
them to use for the local folklore society that shall continue to
use them and thuse preserve in a lively way a bit of the history.
Zeljko Heimer, 21 July 2004
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Previous Coat of Arms
by Zeljko Heimer, 15 Febuary 2003