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Gradište is a community in the Vukovar-Srijem County,
just north of Županja, 30 km
southwest of Vukovar. Population
about 3,500 alsmot exclusivly living in the village of the same
name.
The coat of arms of Gradište is Gules a fleur-de-lis fleury
argent and in chef two pumpkins or. The richly ornamented gourds
is a beautiful part of the local folklore.
I estimate the adoption date tentatively to 1998 when the flag
must have been adopted, but I found no details as yet.
Source: Opcina Gradište <www.gradiste.hr>.
Željko Heimer, 26 July 2004
Gourd is a generic name for fruits in Cucurbits when they
don't have a specific name (like pumpkin, squash, melon,
watermelon, marrow, cucumber, etc.). The word comes from
"gorde", itself an alteration of "coorde",
itself coming from Latin "cucurbita" (Grand Robert de
la Langue Française). Gourd is also a Cucurbit species (or
rather a group of related species belonging to genus Lagenaria,
the taxonomy of Cucurbits being fairly complex and
controversial). Gourd fruits are often carved into ornamental
items also called gourds."
Lewis A. Nowitz and Ivan Sache, 26 and 28 July
2004
Thanks to Tomislav Šipek who located a photo of the
official and ceremonial flags being displayed in the community
assembly, and the drawing of the ceremonial flag at <gradiste.hr/images>,
I can now prepare better pictures and add more info.
As we know from before, the coat of arms of
Gradište is Gules a fleur-de-lis fleury argent and in chef
two gourds or. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the
middle.
Unlike the usual custom (expecting it to be yellow), the ceremonial flag is a blue gonfalon with three
triangularly ending tails, the middle one being longer, with the
coat of arms in the middle, the name of the community in two
arched lines above and three oak branches ornaments in the tails.
Željko Heimer, 14 October 2007
In the mean time I have received answers to my inquiry to the
community officials on further details.
The symbols were adopted on 19 October 1998 (being also the day
of validity) with the decision signed on 4 November 1998: Odluka
o grbu i zastavi Opcine Gradište, te nacinu i uvjetima
njihove uporabe i zaštite, 19. listopada 1998. Službeni
vjesnik Županije Vukovarsko-srijemske
The decision brings us the blazon slightly differing from mine
although it is questionable weather this has any relevance for
the English blazon. The coat of arms is described as red coloured
shield with a silver fleur-de-lis with pestles and in chief
dexter and sinister each a golden gourd with black double wattle.
The double wattle is obviously based on the much more common term
used in Croatian ornamentics, the well known triple wattle.
The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the middle, being 2/3
of the flag width high. The ceremonial flag is
not mentioned in the decision (but it is shown in the same word
file containing the decision).
The decision invalidates a previous decision adopted on 30
December 1993, that presumably was adopting some other previous
symbols, but these remain unknown for the time being.
Željko Heimer, 2 November 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 2 November 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 2 November 2007
