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Punat is a community south of the city of Krk on the island of the same name. It has
about 1,800 inhabitants. Punat is built around a big natural bay
with a tiny entrance thus providing for an excelently guarded
port. On an ilet in the middle of the bay there is a monastery
that maintained the Croatian scolarship in long years since it
establishent in 9th century.
The coat of arms adopted around 1995 is probably based on a
historical seal or coat of arms. Anyway, it is: Azure Archangel
Michael, armoured or, clead white and caped gules holding in his
dexter an erect sword proper and in his sinister scales also or,
standing on two peninsulas vert issuant from flanks and between
those a sailboat argent. The coat of arms thus pictures the
entrance to the Punat bay protected by St. Michael. The flag is
unknow to me yet, but surely there exist one.
Source: [osg02]
Oštric Goroslav: Monumenta heraldica, izbor iz heraldicke
baštine primorsko-goranske županije, Pomorski i
povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeke, 2002.
Željko Heimer, 20 July 2003
In all the official gazettes issued until now (early August
2003) Punat did not publish any symbol realted document in them.
It seems odd, since Punat does have a historical coat of arms,
and I got reports that the historical coat of arms is used, in
modernized artistic form just as I have posted recently (no
photos, though, but I have little doubt in the reprorts).
Possibly there is some problem with a flag - I have no report on
the flag usage - maybe Punat wanted multycoloured flag while
Ministry insists on monocoloured (pure speculation though).
Željko Heimer, 2 September 2003
The Statutes of 2006 available on web
site of the official gazette of the County describe the coat
of arms and the flag: Statut Opcine Punat, 16.01.2006,
Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br.
2/2006, 17.01.2006.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered golden in the
middle.
Probably the same description was already present in the
previous, 2001 Statutes, but I have no text of it (it was
published in the gezette nr. 24/01, amended in 28/01 and 8/05).
Željko Heimer, 16 August 2006
Tomislav Šipek reported to me that he spoted the
ceremonial flag of Punat on a TV show from there a few days ago.
As he reported the ceremonial flag is white (which is odd for a
community using a blue flag otherwise, but not unheard of - we
had a few such examples already) and it is in shape with three
tails, ending triangualry of which the middle one is longer,
having golden fring all along the bottom, similar to the shape of
the ceremonial flag of Lobor.
However, Tomislav was unable to figure out the ornaments in the
tails.
I had tryed to find any image of the ceremonial flag, and
eventually I managed to find one a t<www.novilist.hr>.
Not a good one, but here it is, confirming Tomislav's claims
partially - it is white, bufortunately, the talis are not visible
and the ornament is again rather vaguely seen.
On the other hand, the photo at the link above showes us an other
curious detail. The shade of blue used for the "normal"
flag of Punat is much lighter then the shade I have drawn
following the Oštric's "Monumenta Heraldica" book.
Željko Heimer, 20 August 2007
The official gazette of the County (SNPGŽ) is available
on <www.sn.pgz.hr> and
now includes also PDF scans of the earliest years of issue added
recently. I analized these old gazettes from original paper
issues some years ago and got everything flag related I found
there, but I obviously missed some decisions pubished, like in
the case of Punat.
The first flag related decision in the SNPGŽ is in
Rješenje o osinvanju i imenovanju clanova Komisije za
davanje prijedloga izgleda grba i zastave Opcine Punat, 6. lipnja
1994, SN PGŽ, br. 18/94, 23.06.1994, being the decision on a
comission to provide a proposal for the coat of arms and the
flag. The chairam of the comission was the cummonity mayor and
there were three other members, I suspect members of the
community council.
The second decision I located is: Odluka o izmjeni i dopuni
Odluke o grbu i zastavi Opcine Punat, 28. ožujka 1996, SN
PGŽ, br. 9/96, 17.04.1994. This is amendment of a previous
decision on the coat of arms and the flag - unfortunately, it
seems that the decision which is ammended by this one was just
not published in the gazette! We may only speculate that this
provided for the coat of arms and the flag in the form they are
used currently. The amendmens made by this decision are just two.
First, the word "historical" is added to the
description of teh coat of arms, probably to attest the fact that
Punat adopted its historical coat of arms. Second, the
determination "the flag is bordered with a red border
line" was deleted from the description.
If it is true that this resulted in the current flag, the one adopted in 1994 included a red border, which
was obviously removed for the requirements of the state comission
of the Ministry of Administration.
I wrote on 16 August 2006 about statutes and description of the
symbols saying: "Probably the same description was already
present in the previous, 2001 Statutes, but I have no text of it
(it was published in the gezette nr. 24/01, amended in 28/01 and
8/05)."
Now the 2001 Statutes is available on-line: Statut Opcine Punat,
3. listopada 2001, SN PGŽ, br. 24/01, 10.10.2001.
However, this Statutes does not include descriptions, only
provision that the community has coat of arms, flag and anthem,
to be defined with a further decision. Similarly previous
Statutes of the community of Punat also include only provision on
having coat of arms and the flag - which probably indicates
nothing in particular - this being more or less standard part of
any local statutes in Croatia.
I redraw the coat of arms and the flag according to the photo of
the real flag we had seen a few days ago.
Željko Heimer, 23 August 2007
Coat of Arms and flag were 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
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image by Željko Heimer, 23 August 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 23 August 2007