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Matulji (The Coast-Gorski Kotar, Croatia)

Općina Matulji

image by Željko Heimer, 16 July 2003

Overview
Coat of Arms

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Overview

Matulji is a community of some 10 000 inhabitants (quite a few comparing with some other around) less then 10 km west of Rijeka just above the Opatija City. Actually, Matulji is developed as the railway station for Opatija. The shape in the CoA probably refers to the transportation importance of the site. The coat of arms of Matulji is: Azure a pall argent between three bells or. The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the middle.
Sources: [osg02] Oštric Goroslav: Monumenta heraldica, izbor iz heraldicke baštine primorsko-goranske županije, Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeke, 2002. My photos of the road signs entering the community. Information Robert Grubisa, Rijeka, 06.07.2003. based on an article in Novi List.
Željko Heimer, 16 July 2003

The decision was issued in the gazette: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Opcine Matulji, 01.04.1997, Službene novine Primorsko goranske-županije, br. 7/97, 11. travnja 1997.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the middle bordered golden. The bells shown are traditionally used in the carnival festivities in the region (they could be as large as some 30 cm. in height).
The ceremonial flag is prescribed to be further determined "at a latter date". (But as I noticed in some other similar cases, that may as well mean that the ceremonial flag is existing, only that no decision on it was published in the gazette.)
Željko Heimer, 31 August 2003

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

The new 2009 Statutes of Matulji repeats the descriptions of the coat of arms and the flag from the 2001 statutes (the previous 1993 Statutes do not have the descriptions, only prescription on the existance of the symbols to be adopted with separate decision).
- Statut Opcine Matulji, 10.10.2001, Službene novine Primorsko goranske-županije, br. 24/2001, 10.10.2001.
- Statut Opcine Matulji, 09.07.2009, Službene novine Primorsko goranske-županije, br. 26/2009, 15.07.2009.
Željko Heimer, 7 December 2009

Coat of Arms

image by Željko Heimer, 16 July 2003