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Lekenik is a community in the Sisak-Moslavina County,
population around 6,500, the village Lekenik itself just above
1,500, located some 20 km northwest of Sisak.
It is maybe most well know about the Children's
Village located there.
The Coat of Arms-like emblem shown in a lexicon (Croatia Tourist
Guide, Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb, 2000.)
is probably not confirmed by the Ministry, and therefore no flag
to go with it either.
The coat of arms is divded horizontally blue and green with
golden wooden house typical for the region surrounded with a
silver wreath of oak and vine leaves.
Željko Heimer, 3 July 2004
Tomislav Šipek reported several days ago that he has seen
on TV (HRT, Croatian national TV) on a report from Lekenik a flag
being used. He described the flag to be white with a light blue
Scandinavian cross over which is set the coat of arms. This coat
of arms is also shown on the web page of the community at <www.lekenik.com> but there
is no mention of the flag.
I believe that the coat of arms could not have passed the strict
requirements of the central authorities and was therefore
probably not approved. The flag of this kind is even more
obviously against the rules and could hadrly been approved, so I
guess that these both are used without approval (i.e.
unofficially). [Unless it has been approved in already in 1993
when several flags have been approved before the strict rules
were introduced - cf. Vukovar, Vinkovci, Šakovo.].
Inspite of the obvious similarity I do not think that there is
any "Finnish connection" in Lekenik, though probably
Finland was among countries that financially helped the community
after the war in 1990's.
Željko Heimer, 21 July 2006
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image by Željko Heimer, 3 July 2004