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Cernik is a community in the Brod-Posavina County under the
Psunj mountain, due north of Nova
Gradiska, some 60 km west of Slavonski
Brod. It has somewhat less the 5,000 inhabitants, some 2000
living in the main settlement of the community. (It is, of
course, not the same as the place of the same name in the Cavle
Community, near Rijeka.)
According to Tihomir Podkornjak, the webmaster of <www.cernik.web1000.com>
the symbols were adopted in 17 October 2002. Before that an
unofficial shield-like emblem was used, still appearing at the
site above.
The coat of arms is azure an acorn and in chief two keys in
saltire with the wards down outwards all or.
The keys refer to St. Peter, the patron of the parish, and the
acorn is canting since the name of the place is derived from the
archaic word cer meaning oak. The flag is light blue
with the coat of arms in the middle bordered goden.
The ceremonial flag is dark blue with the coat of arms in the
middle, the name of the community in two arcs above and three
triangularly ending tails containing ornaments of the oak
branches.
Željko Heimer, 8 May 2004
Apparently, in the mean time, for some reason the community
decided to adopt an other design, differing from the previous in
that it depicts two acorns instead of one.
The wbesite Cernik Onile
(also maintained by Tomislav Podkornjakm who provided info on
2002 design) incudes the drawings of the new design (including
the vectorial drawing of the coat of arms), but also drawings of
previosu single-acorn design and the even older pre-2002 coat of
arms (see <cernik.atspace.com>
and click on drawings).
The coat of arms of Cernik is now: azure two acorns and in chief
two keys in saltire with the wards down outwards all or.
The flag is (most probably) dark blue with the coat of arms in
the middle bordered yellow.
The ceremonial flag is probably also adopted, no info so far,
however Heraldic Art materials
include the photo of the table flag: dark blue with the coat of
arms in the middle, the name of the community in two arcs above
and two coloured oak branches below it.
The embem used by Cernik before 2002 was blue shiled with white
castle on a white fringed golden mount containing eight-pointed
voided white star, in the red chief dexter white fringed golden
enbowed bend with a blue marten.
The symbols were designed by the Heraldic
Art d.o.o. from Rijeka.
Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007
flag
image by Željko Heimer, 8 May 2004
ceremonial flag
image by Željko Heimer, 8 May 2004
sb-ce02.gif)
coat of arms
image by Željko Heimer, 1 October 2003
sb-ce9x.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007