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Brdovec (Municipality, Zagreb County, Croatia)

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[Municipal flag]

Flag of Brdovec - Image by Željko Heimer, 31 October 2010


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Presentation of Brdovec

The municipality of Brdovec (10,287 inhabitants in 2001) is located some 30 km west of Zagreb, due west of Zaprešić, on the border with Slovenia. The municipality is made of the the village of Brdovec (2,310 inh.) and another 12 smaller settlements located along the main road and rail road upstream river Sava.
A number of castles and manors were erected in the region by nobility in the 19th century. The St. Vitus church was already mentioned in 1334. According to a local legend, a statue of St. Vitus was found flooded along the banks of Sava and the church was erected there in his honour.

Željko Heimer, 4 February 2015


Flag of Brdovec

The symbols of Brdovec are prescribed by Decision Odluka (o grbu i zastavi općine Brdovec), adopted on 21 April 1998 by the Municipality Assembly.

The symbols, designed by Drago Jančić and Slavko Bratić, and the academic sculptor Dragutin Grgas, as a coauthor, were approved on 3 July 1998 by the Ministry of Administration.
The symbols are pictured and described in the book Brdovečki zbornik, edited by Stjepan Laljak (Matica Hrvatska, Zaprešić, 2002).

The flag is blue with the coat of arms, bordered yellow, in the middle. The blue shade is darker in the shield than in the flag.

Željko Heimer, 4 February 2015


Coat of arms of Brdovec

[Town coat of arms]

Coat of arms of Brdovec - Image by Željko Heimer, 31 October 2010

The coat of arms is described in an attachement to the Decision, as follows:

The coat of arms of the Municipality of Brdovec is in a classical shield shape. In the central part, on a blue background, is a cauldron and St. Vitus coloured golden on red fire flames. In the base of the shield is a green hill.

The hill (Croatian; brdo) makes the arms canting. The arms further refer to the main altar of the parish church and to ecclesiastic literature recounting how St. Vitus was, after torture, thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil.

Željko Heimer, 4 February 2015