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Čakovec (Town, Međimurje County, Croatia)

Flag of Čakovec - Image by Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009

Presentation of Čakovec
Flag of Čakovec
Coat of arms of Čakovec
Former symbols of Čakovec
- 1993-199x
- 199x-2009
Flag of Čakovec (Csáktornya), 1941-1945

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Presentation of Čakovec

Čakovec is the capital of the Međimurje County.

Željko Heimer, 12 August 1996

Flag of Čakovec

The symbols of Čakovec are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu Grada Čakovca (text), adopted on 9 July 2009 by the Town Assembly and published on 10 July 2009 in the Town official gazette Službeni glasnik Grada Čakovca, No. 9.
This Decision supersedes the 1993 Decision.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, blue with the coat of arms, bordered white, in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009

Coat of arms of Čakovec

Coat of arms of Čakovec - Image by Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009

The coat of arms is "Azure issuant from base a massoned wall embattled and with a tower argent between two mullets or."
According to Bojničić [bjn99a], the coat of arms of Čakovec is actually the arms of the Ernusth de Csáktornya family, lords of Čakovec since the 15th century. In the 16th century the family, its estates and also its coat of arms was inherited by the Zrinski family, who marshalled the coat of arms in their own. The arms are canting, as the most probable origin of the name Csáktornya is "Csaky's Tower", after Count Dimitry Csaky, high magistrate and Palatine on the Court of King Bela IV in the 14th century.
Ströhl (Städte-Wappen von Ö-U, 1904) [stl04] shows an almost to the line identical drawing of the arms of Čakovec; Laszowski's Coffee Hag album of 1939 [lsv39] shows it slightly different, adding red roofs above the embattllemnts on each side of the tower. It also mentions that the coat of arms is based on a seal dated 1596.

Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009

Former symbols of Čakovec

1993-199x

Former symbols of Čakovec - Images by Željko Heimer, 2 October 2011

The former flag of Čakovec is prescribed by Decision Odluka o zastavi Grada Čakovca, adopted on 28 October 1994 by the Town Assembly and published on 4 November 1994 in the County official gazette Službeni glasnik Županije Međimurske, No. 6.
The Decision should have became valid on the day of obtaining the approvement from the Ministry of Administration, which never happened.

The flag is described in Article 4 of the Decision as follows:

The flag of the Town is rectangular in shape; in the ratio 1650:900. Next to the hoist is a border coloured white-silver of width 50, followed by a field of blue with two regular six-pointed stars coloured golden-yellow and a field of white-silver, each of width 800. In the blue field, the centre of the stars is in the crossing point of the diagonals of the half of the field, while the vertices of the stars are in a radius of 125.
The colours are identical to those prescribed by the Regulations on standardization of the coat of arms of the Town of Čakovec.
The ceremonial flag is made of double-sewn highly glossy material, edged with a golden ribbon with knitted fringe.
A copy of a special document depicting the flag and an original of the flag are preserved in the archives.

The coat of arms of Čakovec is prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu Grada Čakovca, adopted on 13 December 1993 by the Town Assembly and published on 31 December 1993 in Službeni glasnik Županije Međimurske, No. 3.

The coat of arms is described in Article 6 of the Decision as follows:

The coat of arms of the Town is the historical coat of arms in a shield shape. On the blue background of the shield are silver walls with embattled crenellations with the same tower. There is a rectangular opening in the tower. On both sides of the tower is a golden six-pointed star.

Željko Heimer, 2 October 2011

199x-2009

Former symbols of Čakovec - Images by Željko Heimer, 12 August 1996

Čakovec changed the flag to the blue one with the coat of arms in the middle at some date, probably around 1996.

Željko Heimer, 2 October 2011

Flag of Čakovec (Csáktornya), 1941-1945

Former flag of Čakovec - Image by António Martins, 28 February 2001

In April 1941, Hungary occupied Čakovec and annexed it in December. In April 1945 it lost it. The Treaty of Paris (1947) reallocated the town to Yugoslavia.

According to Széll (Városaink neve, címere és lobogója [szs41]), the former flag of Čakovec is vertically divided blue-white.
Széll's book shows the flags of several towns formerly held by Hungary. The book is our only source of these flags, but it is not clear as to what period these flags were used as claimed by the book. I doubt very much that they were used during the time of Austria-Hungary. It seems very much more like they were designed in 1941 - but it is not even clear weather the designs shown in Széll's book are just proposals or if they were ever prescribed in any formal way and after all whether they were used. At least for the moment, I believe that the former flag was in use at most in years 1941-1944.

Željko Heimer, 28 February 2001