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Hrascina (Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia)

Opc'ina Hrašc'ina

Last modified: 2006-10-28 by dov gutterman
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Overview

Hrašcina is a community in the Krapina-Zagorje County, 2, 000 inhabitants, less the 150 in the village of the same name. It issome 30 km north east of Zagreb, towards Varaždin.
The coat of arms is shown in several tourist punlications and leaflets and forwarded to me by Tomislav Šipek: Gules a mullet of eight or within a border of the same. Such coat of arms would have much chance to the be confirmed by the Ministry, but I have no info on that. The existance of the matching flag is highly probable, but again, no info.
I have no explanation for the symbolic. Since the name Hrašcina has root in the word for oak (hrast) one would expect something of the sort, but no... However, if there is a ceremonial flag, it would surely be ornamented with oak brances, I'd guess...
Željko Heimer, 20 June 2004

At the web site of the County <www.kr-zag-zupanija.hr> there are available official gazettes since 2001 from which mostly this is compiled to update info we currently have.
The Statutes of the community: Statut Opcine Hrašcina, 20.09.2001, Službeni glasnik Krapinsko- zagorske županije, br. 14/01, 31.10.2001. In artcile 7, 8 and 9 describe the flag and the coat of arms. The coat of arms is gules a mullet of eight or within a border of the same. The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the middle.
I believe that these symbols were adopted prior to the statutes, but at the moment I have no info (my assesment is around 1995 ?).
It is not quite clear how the name of the community is spelled. The community uses form Hrašc^ina" throughout its statutes, while the official gazette writes elsewhere "Hrašc'ina" and I believe that this is how it is spelled in the state Law on local administartion. I guess the local version should be official - they should know better and anyway it is more in accordance with the local dialect.
Željko Heimer, 3 August 2006


Coat of Arms


image by Željko Heimer, 20 June 2004