Kutjevo (Pozega-Slavonia, Croatia)

Opc'ina Kutjevo

Last modified: 2005-11-05 by dov gutterman
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Coat of Arms
image by Željko Heimer, 31 October 2005

• Overview

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• Croatia
• Pozega-Slavonia County
• Croatia - Counties and Municipalities

Other sites:

• Collection of Croatian Local Flags at FAME

Overview

Kutjevo is a community in the Požega and Slavonija County, some 20 km north-east of Pozega on the southern slopes of the Krndija mountain. 7,500 inhabitants, 2,500 in the town of the same name. Kutjevo is famous for the vine production and the vine cellars.
The coat of arms of Kutjevo, as shown on the County web site at <www.pszupanija.hr> is: azure a castle argent roofed gules with a circular tower above the gates and a belfry in sinister and in the base a buch of grapes slipped with two leaves or.
The castle is the Jesuit castle built in Kutjevo after the liberation from the Turks in 1700 on the ruins of the former Cistercit monastery. The bunch of grapes refers to the famous cellars and the vine production.
Željko Heimer, 31 October 2005