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Oriovac (Slavonski Brod-Posavina, Croatia)

Općina Oriovac

Last modified: 2008-08-02 by dov gutterman
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Overview

Oriovac is a community in the Slavonski Brod-Posavina County, about 20 km west of Slavonski Brod along the highway Zagreb-Brod. Population just under 7,000 with about 2,000 of them living in the place of the same name. The nearby marshes has been transformed into the fish pools long ago. Today most famous by the industry "Oriolik" producing furniture and polyurethane products.
I have for some time a photocopy of the Coat of Arms from some document dated June 2004, but missing the info on colours. On <www.oriovac.hr> I found a coloured image that enables me a decently reliable drawing. The coat of arms of Oriovac is: gules a heron argent holding a walnut or. The heron refers to the marshy regions along Sava river, nowdays the fish pools, and the walnut may be reference to the origin of the place name (walnut = orah in Croatian) as well as to the furniture industry by which Oriovac is famous. So far, no info on flag itself.
Željko Heimer, 15 January 2006

Tomislav Šipek located some further info on the flag of Oriovac. On the web site of the community at <www.oriovac.hr> one can see among other photos a photo of (presumably) the mayor with table flags in front of him. The photo is small, but it is clear that one of the flags is the table flag (based on the ceremonial flag) of Oriovac. This is red with the coat of arms, inscription and porbably some aditional ornaments (not visible on the photo). This would mean that the flag of Oriovac is (highly probable) red with the coat of arms in the middle bordered yellow.
Željko Heimer, 22 July 2006

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


Coat of Arms


image by Željko Heimer,15 January 2006