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Legrad is a small town about twenty kilometers due north of Koprivnica with some 2,600 inhabitants.
It is situated at the confluence of Mura into Drava. It is said
that the river flow removed the whole city from Medimurje (then
in Hungary) into Podravina (Croatia) without moving single stone
- the river switched the flow from south of the town to north of
it. I really don't know how exact the story is and when it
happened, I heard it long ago from my grandfather, who was born
in Legrad.
The coat of arms and the flag are described in the statutes of
2001 issued in the official gazette (avilable on <www.glasila.hr>):
Statut Opcine Legrad, 1. listopada 2001. Službeni glasnik
Koprivnicko-križevacke županije, br. 11/01, god. IX,
Koprivnica, 5. listopada 2001. They must have been adopted
somewhat earlier, say about 1997.
The coat of arms of Legrad is the historical coat of arms (claims
the Stautes): Azure a fess argent, in base a boat proper and in
chief a mullet or and a crescent of the second. The flag is blue
with yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 23 Febuary 2003
The coat of arms is indeed a historical one (as the Statutes
claim), since [ern03] agrees and
show a picture of it from a source from 1920's, I believe.
Unfortunately, no further details on the origin of this coat of
arms is given.
Željko Heimer, 25 May 2003
The official gazette since 2000 is available on the web site
of the County at <www.kckzz.hr>
including decisions on symbols of its cities and communities. The
communities adopted new statutes in 2006, typically containing
the descriptions of coat of arms and flags adopted previously, so
I just quote them for documetry purposes:
Legrad: Statut Opcine Legrad, 23.01.2006, Službeni glasnik
Koprivnicko- križevacke županije, br. 1/06, 26.01.2006.
Željko Heimer, 16 August 2006
The web site at <library.foi.hr>
include a project of digitazing of the regional journal Glas
Podravine, from its first issues in 1951.
- Article
from 1971 shows the historical 1610 coat of arms of Legrad.
The modern coat of arms is based on this
historical model.
- Article
from 1995 include (unfortunately quite bad quality) photo of
a road sign with the coat of arms of Legrad that was set on the
roads entering the community.
- Article
from 1996 repoerts that the Ministry approved the coat of
arms of Legrad. Nice drawing of the coat of arms. Designer again
Antoni Grgic, who designed the County coat of arms. It is
recontruction of the 1610 coat of arms of Legrad (we have seem it
above - with diagonal stripe!), the silver stripe stands for the
Drava River, beneat it is brown boat, so called
"šajka" - Legrad was once place of production of
such boats that was the main trade mean in the region. The
crescent and star are from the oldest Croatian coat of arms,
present in many old Croatian local coats of arms.
Željko Heimer, 11 August 2009
From the official
gazettes:
The description of the coat of arms and the flag is repeated in
the new 2009 Statutes equal to the 2006 statutes: Statut Opcine
Legrad, 02.07.2009, Službeni glasnik
Koprivnicko-križevacke županije, br. 10/2009,
16.08.2009. str. 961.
Željko Heimer, 13 September and 19 December 2009
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