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Fuzine (The Coast-Gorski Kotar , Croatia)

Općina Fužina

image by Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003

Overview
Ceremonial Flag
Coat of Arms
April 1996 Symbols

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Overview

Fuzine (Fužine) - The coat of arms is red with a white fess, above it a massoned railway bridge and below an anvil. Above the shield is the name of the community and below two indigenous branches. The flag is green with the shield of arms in the middle. There is also a ceremonial vertical flag in gonfalon form with the full coat of arms in the middle and embroderied decorations in tails, but details are unknown. Adopted: around 1995 (?).
Source: Nebojša Anić, Fuzine pages, 1997
Željko Heimer

Fuzine is a community of exactly 2,000 inhabitants (1991 census) some 10 km inlands from the Bakar bay (i.e. from Kraljevica) on a railroad Budapest-Zagreb-Rijeka and on a road leading to Krk.
The flag is green with yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle. The coat of arms is gules a bar argent in chief a rail-road bridge on three massoned pillars and in base an anvil all argent.
The ceremonial flag (details not confirmed) contains "ceremonial" Coat of Arms ornamented with two branches and name of the community above the shield.
Željko Heimer, 9 July 2003

The community of Fuzine adopted the symbols in 1996 and soon slightly changed them, probably after a suggestion of the Ministry of Administration. The two decisions in the official gazette are:
- Odluka o grbu i zastavi Opcine Fužine, 29.04.1996, Službene novine Županije primorsko-goranske, br. 12/96, 10. svibnja 1996.
- Odluka o izmjeni Odluke o grbu i zastavi Opcine Fužine, 30.09.1996, Službene novine Županije primorsko-goranske, br. 23/96, 11. listopada 1996.

The first decision adopted the symbols that are virtually equal to those used afterwards with only one difference - the field above the silver bar was green instead of red. So, we have a coat of arms, a flag and a ceremonial flag, most probably they were never actually used (See: April 1996 Symbols).
The second decision adopts the current symbols on 30 September 1996, changing the upper field to red. The flag is drak green with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle. The ceremonial flag is described, but I believe that a reasonable reconstruction could be made from it, since I received earlier the "greater (ceremonial) coat of arms" (no such term is used in the Croatian civic heraldry, but you know what I mean), from the Community much earlier, as I already reported. The ceremonial flag is a dark green gonfalon with three tails, golden bordered and fringed along bottom, with the coat of arms in the middle, above it the name of the community in arcs and below two golden branches - beech-tree to the (viewer's) left and fir-tree to the right.
Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003

The Statutes: Statut Opcine Fužine, 20.12.2005, Službene novine Primorsko goranske- županije, br. 37/05, 23.12.2005, include the description of the coat of arms, flag and ceremonial flag. The symbolic is also described: The red filed symbolises the heat of the iron furnaces, the base of the prosperity of Fužine, the white beam stands for water power, bridge symbolizes the unity of the citizens while the anvil again refers to the iron industry.
Željko Heimer, 16 August 2006

The symbols were designed by the Heralid Art d.o.o company in Rijeka.
Željko Heimer, 4 November 2007

The new statutes of Fužine repeats the determinations introduced in the 2001 statutes (repeated in 2005). The original 1994 did not include description of the symbols (as tehy were adopted in 1996).
- Statut Opcine Fužine, 08.10.2001, Službene novine Primorsko goranske-županije, br. 28/01, 15.11.2001.
- Statut Opcine Fužine, 20.12.2005, Službene novine Primorsko goranske-županije, br. 37/2005, 23.12.2005.
- Statut Opcine Fužine, 01.07.2009, Službene novine Primorsko goranske-županije, br. 23/2009, 01.07.2009.
Željko Heimer, 6 December 2009

Ceremonial Flag

imageby Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003

Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms
imageby Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003

"Ceremonial Coat of Arms"
imageby Željko Heimer

This name "Ceremonial Coat of Arms" is not prescibed as far as I am aware, it is just my convinient term for it.
Željko Heimer, 9 July 2003

April 1996 Symbols

The Flag

imageby Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003

The Ceremonial Flag

imageby Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003

Coat of Arms

imageby Željko Heimer, 28 August 2003