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Viškovo is community due north of Rijeka, with just under
7000 inhabitants. The official site of the community <www.opcina-viskovo.com>
contains decent flag info, and even better I received upon an
e-mail request few months ago from Goran Petrc, the Community
Mayor of Viškovo. Also, I have the texts of the decisions
issued in several number of the official gazette, and of course,
the Oštric book.
The Coat of Arms and the flag are adopted in
1998 with decision: Odluka o grbi i zastavi (Opcine
Viškovo), 22. listopada 1998, Službene novine
Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 22/98
From the currently used design it was different because it
included also an open white book in the chief behind the feather.
This was eventually removed, probably after a suggestion from the
Ministry. (No doubt, the feather symbolize the literacy well
enough without the need for an aditional charge - but that is my
explanation only.)
So the amendment was issued in the gezette: Odluka o izmjeni i
odpuni Odluke o grbu i zastavi (Opcine Viškovo), 29. srpnja
1999. Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br.
18/99, 06.08.1999.
The coat of arms of Viškovo is therefore: Azure a cattle
bell or with a rope argent and in chief a feather fesswise of the
last. The large sized bell is of a kind used traditionally in the
region for carnival festivities (in Febuary). I am not sure to
what exact literary element the feather is supposed to represent.
The flag is red with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the
middle.
The Ceremonial Flag is a red gonfalon with the
coat of arms in the middle, the name of the community above and
vine ornaments with bunches of grape in the three tailes. The
ceremonial flag is not mentioned in any of the decisions, but it
is nicely drawn in a attachment to the 1999 decision I received
from the Mayor. Possibly it was in the end never produced.
There are yet three decisions of the community assembly related
to flags issued in the official gazette: one from sepember 1993
(unpublished in the gazette), one in nr. 14/98 and finally in
24/99. They all determine places and occasions in which the
national and community flag are hoisted in the community. These
are short enough to be quoted: national flag is hoisted all the
time infront of the St. Matew Church in Viškovo, both the
national and the community flag are hoisted all the time on the
community building in Viškovo. There are eight other
locations (like graveyard, monuments, centers of villages in the
commmunity) where the two flags are to be hoisted in the listed
dates: 15 April - the Community Day, 1 May, 30 May - the
Statehood Day (this might have been changed since), 22 June - the
Antifascist Strougle Day, 5 August - Thanksgiving Day and 21
September - St. Matew's Day.
Željko Heimer, 15 August 2003
The decision - Odluka o izmjeni i dopuni Odluke o mjestima i
prigodama za isticanje zastave Republike Hrvatske i zastave Opcine
Viškovo, 03.04.2003, Službene novine Primorsko-goranske
županije, br. 10/03, 14.04.2003 - changed the decisions of
24/99 and 6/02. The change is introduction of the County flag
beside the flags of Croatia and the Community. The places for
hoisting are the community building facade and the community
assembly hall. I visited the community in June 2004 and I can
confirm that at leats on the facade the three flags are used.
Željko Heimer, 16 October 2005
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