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Jesenice (Municipality, Slovenia)

by Zeljko Heimer

Presentation of the municipality
Description of the flag
Coat of arms

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Presentation of the municipality

Jesenice is ancient iron-works town located in the highlands of Slovenia (Goriska).

Zeljko Heimer, 10 August 2002

Description of the flag

The coat of arms is prescribed by decision Odlok o grbu mesta Jesenice, adopted on on 31 March 1992, published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, pp. 1492-3, nr. 19, 17 April 1992, with effect 15 days later.

The 1995 municipal statutes Statut Obcine Jesenice, adopted on 26 May 1995, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 38/1995, prescribes only the coat of arms.

The current statutes Statut Obcine Jesenice, adopted on 21 December 2000, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 2/2001, determines that the municipality has now both a coat of arms and a flag.

The subsequent decision Odlok o grbu in zastavi Obcine Jesenice, adopted on 28 June 2001, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 56/2001, defines the flag and the coat of arms.

The flag is of proportion 1:2, which means a vertical flag, with the field colour defined as silver (Pantone 877C). The coat of arms is set in the middle offset towards the top of the flag. The width of the coat of arms is 1/3 of the flag width and distance from the top is 0.8 of that 1/3 of the flag width.

Zeljko Heimer, 10 August 2002

Coat of arms

by Zeljko Heimer

The coat of arms is a semicircular shield with a cobalt-blue field and silver medieval symbol for iron, somewhat similar to the number 5 without the top bar, but with two bars crossing it instead.
The blue shade of the shield is described as cobalt blue in the 1992 decision.

The iron symbol is on the coat of arms since there is long established medieval tradition of ironworks in the place. I suspect that this particular design was chosen since it reminds a bit to the initial of the city name

The decision adopted in 2001 does not supersede the 1992 decision but adds some details to it. The coat of arms of the municipality is said to be identical to the coat of arms of the town of Jesenice. The colours are prescribed more precisely than "cobalt blue" and "silver":

dark blue: Pantone 2757CV; CMYK 100-80-0-10; RAL 5003
silver : Pantone 877C; RAL 9006. There is no CMYK for silver, since the Pantone 877 is indeed for the metallic shiny paint that cannot be obtained by quadrichrome printing.

Zeljko Heimer, 10 August 2002