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Kastav is a medieval fort, today the western suburb of Rijeka
of some 6000 inhabitants, just a mile or so inlad from the
northermost point of the Rijeka (Kvarner) bay.
The coat of arms of Kastav is modernization of the historical
one: Azure St. Helena issuant from the base clead in white and
cloaked gules, crowned and haloed or holding a cross of the last.
St. Helena was mother of Empiror Constantine the Great, therefor
ethe crown on her head. She had imporant role in establishing
many places of cult of Chirstians in the Holy Land (therefore the
cross-staff).
The source claims that the modernized coat of arms is not in the
official use (yet), which would mean probably that the
modernization was a (winning?) proposal on a concourse that is
either not yet approved by the Ministry or it is not yet fully
adopted by the local administration. Surely, that means that no
flag is used also.
Since administrative reform in 1992/93 until 1997 Kastav had
status of a community, when it was upgraded to city level.
Source: [osg02]
Oštric Goroslav: Monumenta heraldica, izbor iz heraldicke
baštine primorsko-goranske županije, Pomorski i
povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeke, 2002.
Željko Heimer, 24 June 2003
There is a more straightforward relation between St. Helena
and the cross. A late and apocryphal tradition claims that St.
Helena found the "True Cross", on which Christ had been
crucified. The "True Cross" was a very popular relic in
the Middle-Ages. Abbeys and monasteries competed for showing such
relics to pilgrims, often violently.
Ivan Sache, 25 June 2003
The decision on the symbols was issued: Odluka o upotrebi grba
i zastave (Opc'ine Kastav), 27.04.1995, Službene novine
Županije primorsko-goranske, br. 10/95, 22. svibnja 1995.
Apparently the Ministry did not approve the symbols adopted by
it, and the new proposed design (the one shown in [osg02]) is still not adopted by the
City.
The 1995 decision adopts the coat of arms: gules two towers
connected with walls with city gates Voltica, rising above the
belfry of the Church of St. Helena and below all two ivy branches
with golden fruits. The flag is bicolour - silver over red with
the coat of arms in the middle.
Also a ceremonial gonfalon is prescribed, red with coat of arms
and the inscribed name of the community above and three tails
with ivy leaves and golden fruits.
Željko Heimer, 17 August 2003
Tomislav Šipek and Rober Grubiša forwarded me the
article from Novi list (newspaper from rijeka) dated 26 September
2003. I translate it in somehwat shortened form: "With some
amendments and additions to the decisions, the members of the
council of the city of Kastav have adopted the decision on the
coat of arms and the flag. The coat of arms bears the image of
St. Helen the Crusaider shown with a golden crown and a glden
nimbus, wearing a white dress with a red cape bordered golden and
holding in her hends a slanted golden cross. Her image is in a
blue heartlike shield. The flag is monocoloured, red with the
coat of arms set on both sides in the middle of the flag,
bordered golden. The ceremonial flag is dark red bordered
golden-yellow with the coat of arms topped with the inscription
"Grad Kastav". The amendment by a councelor was adopted
unanimously regarding the shape of the letters, that are to be of
the type of the Roman Capital with a famous slanted 's' of
Kastav".
Hopeing to get more info on the ceremonial flag, especially on
the slanted 's' (I suppose that it goes about an inscription that
is well known locally with some special type of the letter S).
The description matches well the shape of the Coat of Arms as I
reported from Ostric's book (that clearly indicated that at the
time it was only a proposal), except for the golden border of the
cloak.
Željko Heimer, 18 October 2003
The decision: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Kastva,
25.09.2003, Službene novine Primorsko-goranske
županije, br. 26/03, 24.10.2003, finally adopts the coat of
arms and the flag as was proposed. The flag is red with the coat
of arms bordered yellow in the middle. The decision also formally
abrogates the 1995 decision that was already not followed by in
practice.
The decision: Odluka o sveanoj zastavi Grada Kastva, 25.09.2003,
Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 26/03,
24.10.2003, determines the ceremonial flag of the city of Kastav.
It is 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" in
two rows and below the coat of arms two crossed golden-yellow ivy
branches with circular fruits.
The images are based on the photos of the flag and the ceremonial
flag I took in Kastava on 6 June 2004.
Željko Heimer, 15 October 2005
image by Željko Heimer, 15 October 2005
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image by Željko Heimer, 15 October 2005