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Kastav (Town, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia)

Flag of Kastav - Image by Željko Heimer, 18 June 2013

Presentation of Kastav
Flag of Kastav
Coat of arms of Kastav
Ceremonial flag of Kastav
Former symbols of Kastav

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Presentation of Kastav

The Town of Kastav (8,891 inhabitants in 2001, 2,037 in the medeival town of Kastav) is a western suburbs of Rijeka, with some 6,000 inhabitants. Per the administrative reform of 1992/93, Kastav was a Municipality, upgraded a Town in 1997.

Željko Heimer, 24 June 2003

Flag of Kastav

The symbols of Kastav are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Kastva, adopted on 25 September 2003 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 24 October 2003 in the County official gazette Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, No. 26. The Decision formally abrogates the 1995 Decision that was already not followed by in practice.
Decision Odluka o I. izmjenama i dopunama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Grada Kastva, adopted on 14 July 2009 by the Town Assembly and published on 15 July 2009 in Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, No. 26, mostly reflects changes in the administrative structure of the Town official bodies.
The current Town Statutes Statut Grada Kastva, adopted on 14 July 2009 by the Town Assembly and published on 15 July 2009 in Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, No. 26, describe the coat of arms, the flag and the ceremonial flag in Articles 4-6.

The symbols were designed by the Heraldic Art d.o.o. company, from Rijeka.

The flag is described as "in proportions 1:2, red with the coat of arms, bordered yellow, in the middle".

Željko Heimer, Tomislav Šipek & Robert Grubiša, 8 December 2009

Coat of arms of Kastav

Coat of arms of Kastav - Image by Željko Heimer, 18 June 2013

The coat of arms is a modernization of the historical one, "Azure St. Helen issuant from the base clad in white and cloaked gules, crowned and haloed or holding a cross of the last".
St. Helen was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, therefore the crown on her head. She had an imporant role in establishing many places of Chrsitian cult in the Holy Land, therefore the cross-staff. A late and apocryphal tradition claims that she found the "True Cross", on which Christ had been crucified.

Željko Heimer & Ivan Sache, 18 October 2003

Ceremonial flag of Kastav

Ceremonial flag of Kastav - Image by Željko Heimer, 18 June 2013

The ceremonial flag of Kastav is prescribed by Decision Odluka o sveanoj zastavi Grada Kastva, adopted on 25 September 2003 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 24 October 2003 in the County official gazette Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, No. 26.
Decision Odluka o I. izmjenama i dopunama Odluke o svecanoj zastavi Grada Kastva, adopted on 14 July 2009 by the Town Assembly and published on 15 July 2009 in Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, No. 26, mostly reflects changes in the administrative structure of the Town official bodies.

The flag is a dark red golfanon bordered golden-yellow and with golden fringes along the bottom, with the coat of arms in the middle bordered golden-yellow. Above the coat of arms is inscription "Grad Kastav" on two rows and below the coat of arms two crossed golden-yellow ivy branches with circular fruits. The letters are in Roman Capital typeface with "the famous slanted 's' of Kastav" (Novi list, 26 September 2003).

Željko Heimer, Tomislav Šipek & Robert Grubiša, 8 December 2009

Former symbols of Kastav

Former symbols of Kastav were prescribed by Decision Odluka o upotrebi grba i zastave (Općine Kastav), adopted on 27 April 1995 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 22 April 1995 in Službene novine Županije primorsko-goranske, No. 10.

The flag is bicolor, silver over red, with the coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms is "Gules two towers connected with walls with city gates Voltica, rising above the belfry of the St. Helen church and below all two ivy branches with golden fruits".
The ceremonial flag is a red gonfanon with the coat of arms and the inscribed name of the municipality above and three tails with ivy leaves and golden fruits.

The symbols were not approved by the Ministry.

Željko Heimer, 17 August 2003