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Dravograd (Municipality, Slovenia)

Municipal flag of Dravograd, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by Željko Heimer, 23 June 2002

Presentation of Dravograd
Municipal flag of Dravograd
Coat of arms of Dravograd
Former flag of Dravograd

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Presentation of Dravograd

Dravograd seceded from Ptuj in 1995. As the name of the city indicates it, the city (grad) of Dravograd (8,708 inhabitants) is situated on river Drava (Drau), near the point where it flows from Austria into Slovenia, in the Slovenian part of Carinthia (in Slovene, Koroška; in German, Kärtnen).

Željko Heimer, 23 June 2002

Municipal flag of Dravograd

The flag and coat of arms of Dravograd are prescribed by Decision Odlok o grbu in zastavi občine Dravograd, adopted on 1 February 1996 and published in the local official gazette Medobčinski uradni vestnik stajerske in Koroške regije, 4/96.

The flag is described in the new municipal statutes, published in 1999 in the local official gazette Medobčinski uradni vestnik stajerske in Koroške regije, 115/99. The only change from the former flag is apparently in the proportion, now 1:2. I suspect that the 1996 Decision already prescribed the change, and that the new statutes just repeated it.

Željko Heimer, 10 January 2006

Coat of arms of Dravograd

Coat of arms of Dravograd - Image by Željko Heimer, 11 October 1999

The coat of arms is in shape of semi-circular shield (width:height = 1:square root of 2), blue with the paschal lamb on a green mount carrying a red flag with a white cross. The colours are not explicitely mentioned in the Decision.
The paschal lamb comes from a seal of the market town of Dravograd dated 1575.

Željko Heimer, 11 October 1999

Former flag of Dravograd

Former flag of Dravograd - Image by Željko Heimer, 11 October 1999

The flag and coat of arms are prescribed by Decision Odlok o dopolnitvi Statuta občine Dravograd, adopted on 26 March 1992 and published in Medobčinski uradni vestnik (Intermunicipal official gazette), nr. 7/26, 10 April 1992. with effect on the same day.

Both the coat of arms and the flag are given a detailed geometrical construction sheet based on the golden number (and therefore the unusual proportions).
The flag is red, vertical, in proportion 1:square root of 5, with the coat of arms in the lower part. The vertical position of the coat of arms is determined by a rather complicated geometrical construction. The width of the coat of arms is 2/5 of the hoist.

Moreover, the Decision allows the municipal assembly to determine the colour patterns and use of the flag in more details, and it would not be impossible to learn that such an other Decision was adopted after 1992.

Željko Heimer, 11 October 1999