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It seems that the community of Domašinec adopted new
symbols recently - the ceremonial flag is shown on the community web site
and Tomislav Šipek reported seeing the flag hoisted in
Domašinec on his last visit there a month ago.
The coat of arms of Domašinec is: vert
two grain flails or in saltire. These items on coat of arms of
Domašinec are not nunchaku (although it is said that the
Japanese weapon was developed from the same tool!) - these are
agricultural tools used to thresh wheat named a flail or a grain
flail.
The flag is green with yellow bordered coat of arms in the
middle. The ceremonial flag is a green
triangularly ending gonfalon with the coat of arms in the middle,
beneath it two garbs of wheat, in the top inscription in two
lines.
Željko Heimer, 14 October 2007
The flail (from Latin "flagellum", "a
whip"; in French, "fléau") was a main
agricultural tool before the invention of the threshing machine.
Wild wheats and their relative are self-threshing, but
domesticated wheats are no longer. This prevents grain loss
before and, mostly, during harvest, but requires a specific
threshing tool.
Given the importance of agriculture in the past and the
importance of flails in agriculture, I am surprised to see flails
shown on so few flags. The only other examples we seem to have is
Opatovice (Czech Republic) and Cremin commune (Vaud canton, Switzerland).
Ivan Sache and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
14 October 2007
Coat of Arms and flag designed by Heraldic Art d.o.o from
Rijeka and approved by the Ministry of Administration/Central
State Office for Administration before 2006.
Željko Heimer, 23 May 2008
image by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2007