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Ludbreg (Town, Varaždin County, Croatia)

Flag of Ludbreg - Image by Željko Heimer, 24 February 2015

Presentation of Ludbreg
Flag of Ludbreg
Coat of arms of Ludbreg
Variants of the flag of Ludbreg
Former symbols of Ludbreg

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Presentation of Ludbreg

The Town of Ludbreg (8,487 inhabitants in 2011, 3,603 in the town of Ludbreg) was granted the Town status in 1997. There is a legend regarding Ludbreg to be the center of the world, as there are several European capitals that are situated on concentric circles around Ludbreg.

Željko Heimer, 7 November 2013

Flag of Ludbreg

The symbols of Ludbreg are prescribed by Decision Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Grada Ludbrega, adopted on 22 December 1999 by the Town Assembly and published on 11 February 2000 in the County official gazette Službeni vjesnik Varaždinske županije, No. 1, invalidating the previous Decision.
Unlike the 2001 and 2006 Town Statutes, the current Statutes Statut Grada Ludbrega, adopted on 14 July 2009 and published on 16 July 2009 in Službeni vjesnik Varaždinske županije, No. 23, now include the description of the symbols.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, light blue with the coat of arms, bordered white, in the middle.
The white oultine is not mentioned in the text but is shown on the drawing attached to the Decision, and explciteily given in the approval by the Ministry of Administration, granted on 3 February 2000. On the drawing, the width of the coat of arms is half the flag's width.
The shade of blue is prescribed as Pantone 361 CVC; this must be wrong as this turns out to be a green shade, possibly the 301 was meant.

Željko Heimer, 24 February 2015

Coat of arms of Ludbreg

Coat of arms of Ludbreg - Image by Željko Heimer, 18 February 2003

The coat of arms of Ludbreg is "Azure, on a triple mount vert a crescent argent and a mullet or".
In 1997, the year Ludbreg was granted the town status, the town requested information on its historical symbols from the State Archives, which replied they hold a historical seal of 1850, inscribed around the perimeter "* PEČAT OBĆINE LUDB......1850" (The seal of the Municipality of Ludbreg 1850). The seal features a triple mount, a crescent and a star in the central field. This seal is shown on Emilij Laszowski's Coffee Hag album Grbovi Jugoslavije [lsv39], as mentioned in the Decision.

The colour specifications are given as follows:

Light blue	Pantone 297 CVC
Green		Pantone 354 CVC
Yellow		Pantone 108 CVC
Black
White

Željko Heimer, 24 February 2015

Variants of the flag of Ludbreg

Variants of the flag of Ludbreg - Images by Željko Heimer, 24 February 2015

Different variants of the flag have been recorded in use, including:
- a dark blue flag without outline around the "faceless" coat of arms;
- a middle blue flag with yellow outline around the coat of arms having no black lines around the mount and the mullet;
- a vertical light blue flag with a yellow outline around the "faceless" coat of arms.

Željko Heimer, 24 February 2015

Former symbols of Ludbreg

Former flag and arms of Ludbreg - Images by Željko Heimer, 24 February 2015

The former symbols of Ludbreg are prescribed by Decision Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Oćbcine Ludbreg, published in 1991 in Službeni vjesnik Županije Varaždinske, No. 63. The Decision describes the coat of arms and the flag, the procedures and occasions for using them are described, it is determined how the grant for use is to be given and so on as usual with Croatian Decisions of this kind.
The symbols are described in Article 7 of the Municipality Statutes Statut Oćbcine Ludbreg, adopted on 31 March 1994 and published on 7 April 1994 in Službeni vjesnik Županije Varaždinske, No. 4. The Statutes supersede the transitional Municipality Statutes of 1993, where the symbols might have already been included; they were probably also included in previous statutes from the Socialist period, probably from the mid 1980s.
The Town Statutes Statut Grada Ludbrega, adopted on 15 December 1997 and published on 11 March 1998 in Službeni vjesnik Županije Varaždinske, No. 3, changed the wording of the Article on the symbols (now Article 6) to the "default" reading, whitout mention of the symbols described in the previous Statutes.

A coat of arms of Ludbreg, made by the renowned Croatian artist Kosta Angeli Radovani, was mentioned in 1976 (Varaždinske vijesti, 30 September 1976).

The flag is prescribed as follows:

The flag of the Municipality of Ludbreg is light green; in the centre of it is set the coat of arms of the Municipality of Ludbreg. The central point of the coat of arms matches the crossing point of the flag's diagonals.

The coat of arms is prescribed as follows:

The coat of arms of the Municipality of Ludbreg is the historical coat of arms of Ludbreg in a shield shape. In the base of the shield there are hills with three tops raising, coloured green, above which is in a blue field a silver crescent, and atop of it a yellow (golden) six-pointed star.

Željko Heimer, 7 November 2013