Solčava (Municipality, Slovenia)

Last modified: 2008-02-23 by ivan sache
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Municipal flag of Solčava, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by Željko Heimer, 28 January 2002

• Presentation of Solčava
• Municipal flag of Solčava
• Coat of arms of Solčava

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• Slovenia
• Slovenia: Municipal flags

Presentation of Solčava

The municipality of Solčava was formed in 1998 with parts of the municipality of Luče, which had seceded from Mozirje in 1995.

Željko Heimer, 28 January 2002

Municipal flag of Solčava

Stanič & Jakopič [j2s05] write that the symbols of Solčava were adopted in March 2000.

The symbols were designed by Valt Jurečič of Heraldika d.o.o. and Heraldica Slovenica, who kindly provided drawings from which the images shown on this page were made.

The flag is rectangular, in proportions 2:5, green with a thin white stripe dividing it in two parts, the field at hoist being square and containing the attribute from the coat of arms, three edelweiss flowers proper.

Stanič & Jakopič [j2s05] give the colour specifications as:
- Light yellow: Pantone 109
- Dark yellow: Pantone 1225
- Green: Pantone 355
- Blue: Pantone 300
- Red: Pantone 185
- Black: Pantone Black
The drawings of the flag provided by the designer, who surely provided the colour definitions to the municipality and who also provided his images to Stanič, include an other lighter shade of green for the parts of the edelweiss flower. This is not mentioned in the colour definition (not to mention that the flag definition forgets about black used for outlining the flowers).

Željko Heimer, 27 May 2006

Coat of arms of Solčava

by Željko Heimer

The coat of arms of Solčava can be blazoned as "Azure on a mount vert issuant from a stony basement a church argent roofed gules and in base three edelweisses proper two and one".
According to Stanič & Jakopič [j2s05], the church shown on the coat of arms is the Church of St. Mary of the Snows (Slovene: Marija Snežna), the only preserved fully Gothic church in the Upper Savinja valley, built between 1461 and 1485.

Željko Heimer, 27 May 2006