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Sokolovac (Koprivnica-Krizevci, Croatia)

Opc'ina Sokolovac

Last modified: 2010-02-19 by dov gutterman
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Overview

Sokolovac is community of about just less then 6,000 inhabitants, some 10 km SE fo Koprivnica, on the main road leading from Zagreb. As such, I have seen the flag hoisted on the community building number of times I passed on the road in 1998 when I was conscript in Koprivnica and on many occasions afterwards I was driving there. However, most of the times the flag was so wrapped around the pole that I could only note that it is green.
The Ministry of Administration apporved the design on 24 April 1996 (according to [ern03]). I have not found local legislation adoption of defining the flag (surely only because it is not available on line, and I was not searching in appropriate libraries). The design was made by Marijan Špoljar, dr. Zorko Markovic, Romano Baricevic. I suspect that these gentlemen were, at the time of adoption, members of community assembly or some such.
The coat of arms of Sokolovac is canting: azure a hawk argent stantant on a tripple mount vert. 'Sokol' means hawk.
The flag is green with the coat of arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 27 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:
Sokolovac: Statut Opcine Sokolovac, 09.02.2006, Službeni glasnik Koprivnicko- križevacke županije, br. 3/06, 03.03.2006.
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.
- An article from 1994 has the concourse for the coat of arms and the flag of Sokolovac. Among the simplest and shortest of the kind I have seen, basically says: We have a concourse for the design of the coat of arms and flag - send us in your proposals within 8 days.
- An article from 1995 has a new concourse for symbols of Sokolovac (3000, 2000 and 1000 HRK prizes) - obviously the previous concourse was unsucessful.
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 Sokolovac, 14.07.2009, Službeni glasnik Koprivnicko-križevacke županije, br. 10/2009, 16.08.2009. str. 1073.
The coat of arms is described to be outlined in white, and presumably it should be also bordered white in the flag - however, the real flags reported in [ern03] do not have that white outline.
I have not noticed that this description (first present in the 2006 statutes and now repeated, the 2001 statutes do not include the description) mentiones the silver/white border of the coat of arms. It is not clear from the description weather this is a heraldic border in the shield, or an outline around the shield and it is not mentioned specifically when describing the flag (although, by extension, it would be tehre as well). However, since the flags in all outher sources do not include any white outine/border, I do not think that we should change anything, except have this note for the time being.
Željko Heimer, 13 September and 19 December 2009


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image by Željko Heimer, 27 May 2003