Korcula (Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia)

Grad Korčula

Last modified: 2010-01-22 by dov gutterman
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• Coat of Arms

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Overview

Adopted: ca. 22 July 1996. Design: Francesca Danese-Katic, dipl. ing. arh., Korcula.
Fortifications of the old city of Korcula are shown in symbolic way on the arms, and on the entrance there is city patron St. Mark.
Željko Heimer

In a tourist website (located by Ron Lahav) there is the historical seal of the city. Unfortunately, no hint on the date of this seal, which I estimate to be from the 14th cnetury.
No doubt that this seal served as the basis of the adoption of the modern coat of arms in the 1990's .
Željko Heimer, 15 January 2009

I mention the old seal of the city on which the modern coat of arms must have been based. In Laszowski 1930's Kava Hag album "Grbovi Jugoslavije" the coat of arma is given is somewhat different shape, but obviously based on that seal - while for the seal it is only mentioned that it is "medieval" without any more precise dating. Laszowski also mentioned that the coat of arma was granted in 1898. The Kava Hag drawing is shown scanned (quite "errorneously" captioned as GNU Free and Creative Commons GFDL licence!) at wikipedia. It may be interesting that Laszowski identifies the saint as St. Nicolas. However, I believe that is his error.
Namely, H. G. Stroehl in his "Staedte-Wappen v. Oe-U", 1904 shows the coat of arms basically the same as Laszoski except for the shield shape (Stroehl have all shields in square-shield shape, while Laszowski have them all in semi-circular shape), identifying the saint as St. Markus. He notes: "Die Wappenbild wurde am 17. August 1898 Curzola verliechen." - which means, if I am not mistaken, that the coat of arms drawing was granted to Korcula on the mentioned date. I guess that Stroehl is here qite precise in his expression - that it was not the coat of arms that was granted - that must have been considered to have been in use for quite some time - but only a new drawing of "the ancient coat of arms".
Željko Heimer, 20 August 2009

Coat of Arms

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