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Jasenovac (Sisak-Moslavina, Croatia)

Opc'ina Jasenovac

image by Željko Heimer, 7 June 2007

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Coat of Arms

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Overview

The coat of arms is Gules, a ash branch Argent in bend sinister with a leaf and three acorns. It is canting (jasen means ash-tree). The flag is blue with the coat of arms offset towards hoist. Jasenovac is probably the best known worldwide as a place of the infamous extermination camp that was organised there in World War II. Adopted: around 1995 (?).
Source: Author's observations on the community building in Jasenovac, 1996.
Željko Heimer

I posted the image of the flag I saw in 1996 (which I can safely say is not very precise in artistic details, of course). In the official gazette now available on-line (<www.glasila.hr>) in the 2001 Statute of the community one can find reference to the decision that adopted the coat of arms and the flag in 1995. The text of that decision is not available on line unfortunately: "Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Opcine Jasenovac, Službeni vjesnik Opcine Jasenovac, br. 8/95. in: Statut Opcine Jasenovac, 3.10.2001, Službeni vjesnik, br. 20/01."
Željko Heimer, 15 December 2002

Jasenovac is a community in the Sisak-Moslavina county, about 50 km southeast of Sisak, at the confluence of the Una river into the Sava. It has been heavily destructed in the Serb occupation in 1990's, but it is probably most well known as a site of the largest Ustasha-run concentration camp during the WWII.
The decision describing the coat of arms and the flag "Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Općine Jasenovac", Službeni vjesnik Općine Jasenovac, br. 8/95. is refered in the 2001 statutes of the community: "Statut Općine Jasenovac", 3.10.2001, Službeni vjesnik, br. 20/01.
I have seen the flag hoisted at the community building in spring 1996, and I have seen it (and photographed it this time) in spring 2004.
The coat of arms is Gules, an ash branch argent in bend sinister with a leaf and three acorns. It is canting the name of the community since "jasen" means ash-tree. The flag is blue with the coat of arms offset towards hoist.
Željko Heimer, 2 July 2004

The coat of arms is shown and the flag described at <www.opcina-jasenovac.hr>. Against my observation of the actual flag hoisted in Jasenovac some years ago, the description claims that the coat of arms should be in the canton of the flag. I might have misinterpreted the half-roled-up flag there... If that is so, then the actual flag may look something like the above, using the coat of arms image found at the site.
Željko Heimer, 7 June 2007

The web site at <library.foi.hr> include a project of digitazing of the regional journal Glas Podravine (Koprivnica-Krizevci County), from its first issues in 1951. .
- Article from 1998 is on on Draženka Jalšic, where she is mentioned as designer of the coat of arms of Jasenovac, Novigrad Podravski , Kloštar Podravski and Koprivnica (all three from Koprivnica-Krizevci), among others.
Željko Heimer, 11 August 2009

Coat of Arms

by Željko Heimer, 2 July 2004