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Pusca (Zagreb, Croatia)

Općina Pušća

image by Zeljko Heimer, 25 December 2007

Overview
Coat of Arms

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Overview

Pušc'a is a community in the Zagreb County near the city of Zaprešic, east of Zagreb. This is one of those few communities in Croatia that have the seat of administration in a settlement of a different name then the community iself - in this case the vilage is Donja Pušća. The Coat of Arms would have been adopted around 2000, and was shown in local monthly review "Prigorski Kaj, mjesečnik Grada Zaprešic'a", 2003. The design sugest that it might have been designed by the Rijeka company Heraldic-art d.o.o. and then a flag and a ceremonial flag are probably also around.
The Coat of Arms is Argent St. Florian clead as Roman warrior proper pouring water from a vase in his dexter on a burning house and holding in his sinister a red flag.
Zeljko Heimer , 9 June 2004

Tomislav Šipek visited Pušca these days and brought back photos of the flag hoisted on the community building as well as the Coat of Arms images from the road signs. From these, I porovide updated images of Coat of Arms and the image of the flag.
The coat of arms of Pušca is: argent St. Florian clad as Roman warrior proper pouring water from a vase in his dexter on a burning house and holding in his sinister a red flag. The flag is red with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle.
Marko Vitez pointed me out to web site at <www.matis.hr> with reports from a international folklore festival held in Pušca in May 2007. The photos on that page (they could be enlarged by a click!) show a red gonfalon. Apparently, the gonflaon would be exactly what one would expect the gonfalon / ceremonial flag of Pušca community. Only be careful examination one sees that this is the flag of the cultural society of Pušca as is clear from the inscription on the flag "KUD Pušca Hrvatska"
This, of course, does not exclude the possibility that the ceremonial, almost the same flag was made at the same time by the same manufacturer (Heraldic-art Rijeka, no doubt).
Zeljko Heimer, 25 December 2007

Coat of Arms

image by Zeljko Heimer, 25 December 2007