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Pregrada (Town, Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia)

Flag of Pregrada - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 May 2017

Presentation of Pregrada
Flag of Pregrada
Coat of arms of Pregrada
Table flag of Pregrada
Former symbols of Pregrada
- 1993-1998
- 1998-?

See also:

Presentation of Pregrada

The Town of Pregrada (7,165 inhabitants in 2001, 1,654 in the town of Pregrada) is located some 10 km due west from Krapina. Pregrada was already mentioned in 1334.

Željko Heimer, 7 September 2003

Flag of Pregrada

The symbols of Pregrada (municipal website), approved on 15 February 2015 by the Ministry of Administration, are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Pregrade, adopted on 20 March 2017 by the Town Assembly and published on 10 April 2017 in the County official gazette Službeni glasnik Krapinsko-zagorske županije, No. 11 (text), repeating the unpublished Decision Odluka o opisu, načinu isticanja i uporabe grba i zastave grada Pregrade, adopted on 25 September 2002.

Article 8 of the Decision describes the flag as follows:

The flag of the Town of Pregrada is coloured green. In the green field of the flag in the centre there is the coat of arms outlined with a yellow ribbon.

Željko Heimer & Tomislav Šipek, 25 May 2017

Coat of arms of Pregrada

Coat of arms of Pregrada - Image by Željko Heimer, 25 May 2017

Article 7 of the aforementioned Decision describes the coat of arms as follows:

The coat of arms of Pregrada is in a shield shape and it is outlined with black. In the green shield two lions facing each other coloured yellow, with red tongues and claws, with crowns on their heads, are holding the Pregrada Cathedral coloured white with red towers of equal size, beneath a yellow eight-pointed star in the left top corner of the shield and a white crescent in the right top corner of the shield.

The two lions are from the arms of the Keglević family (photo), an important feudal family that held two castles in the vicinity.

Željko Heimer & Tomislav Šipek, 13 September 2015

Table flag of Pregrada

Table flag of Pregrada - Image by Željko Heimer, 8 January 2015

The table flag (photo) is vertical, with the yellow outlined coat of arms, properly rotated and enlarged in the centre.

Željko Heimer & Marko Vitez, 8 January 2015

Former symbols of Pregrada

1993-1998

Flag (reconstructed image) and arms of Pregrada, 1993-1997 - Images by Željko Heimer, 10 September 2011

The first symbols of Pregrada were prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Općine Pregrada, adopted on 30 November 1993 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 11 December 1993 in the County official gazette Službeni glasnik Županije Krapinsko-zagorske, No. 15.

The flag is prescribed as follows.

The flag is in rectangular shape, coloured green, underlined with two opposite white and red lines. Green is the symbol of the Zagorje vegetation, while the lines are details from the arms of the Keglević family. In the first third on the left is the municipality coat of arms, bordered yellow.

The coat of arms is prescribed as follows.

... in a baroque shield with the original Croatian coat of arms a hill raises, on which two crowned lions facing each other hold a church with two towers. In the left top corner is a bunch of grapes with a leaf, and in the right corner two flint guns in saltire. The colours are: red, green, yellow-golden and white-silver.
The coat of arms is based on the historical arms of the Keglević family and shows the "secular rule", represented in the two facing crowned lions guarding the "spiritual rule", represented by the church. The obvious symbol of Pregrada is the church with two towers, beneath the Kuna Gora [the hill in the vicinity of Pregrada] making the centre of the shield. The sky above the hill is the historical Croatian coat of arms, in the left side of which a bunch of grapes is depicted, symbolizing the vineyards and the affiliation to the agriculture, and in the right side of which two flint guns in saltire as are depicted, as the symbol of the struggle for independence and freedom, which are today part of the tradition. The lions are crowned with five-pointed crowns, the mark of a noble citizen who bears the title without Imperial or Royal grant.

The descriptions do not mention the ribbon with the name of the municipality beneath the shield.

1998-?

Flag (reconstructed image) and arms of Pregrada, 1998 - Images by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2015

New, short-lived symbols were prescribed by Decision Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Grada Pregrade, adopted on 27 March 1998 and published on 11 May 1998 in Službeni glasnik Krapinsko-zagorske županije, No. 2.

The flag is prescribed as follows.

... coloured silver. On one and the other end of the flag are the insets shaped as trapezium, one purpure-red and the other golden-yellow. In the middle of the flag is the coat of arms of the Town of Pregrada bordered black. The flag is rectangular, in proportions 1:2.

The coat of arms is prescribed as follows.

... in a shield shape bordered black. The coat of arms is divided into three fields, the top two symmetrical, one yellow and the other blue. In the yellow field is a white sword with a brown handle, and in the blue the Kostel mountain coloured green is raising, atop of which are the ruins of the Kostelgrad. In the lower field coloured purpure red is a marten running. In the middle of the arms is the symbol of Pregrada, the church, entering all three fields. The church is coloured white with two purpure red towers. Below the church are years inscribed with yellow numerals "1334-1997".

Željko Heimer, 10 September 2011