Krsko (Municipality, Slovenia)

Last modified: 2003-02-14 by ivan sache
Keywords: krsko | st. john | snakes: 3 (green) | bowl (yellow) |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

by Zeljko Heimer
Reconstruction after written sources.

• Presentation of the municipality
• Description of the flag
• Coat of arms

See also:

• Slovenia
• Slovenia: Municipal flags

Presentation of the municipality

The municipality of Krsko is located in the lower valley of Sava river at almost the point where Sava enters Croatia. Krsko is probably most known for the nuclear power plant build there, which is the only one in former Yugoslavia, and presumably the energy mentioned below on should refer to it.

Zeljko Heimer, 28 August 2002

Description of the flag

The flag and arms are prescibed by the following decisions:

• Odlok o znaku in zastavi Obcine Krsko, adopted on 30 June 1981, and published in the local official gazette Skuposinski dolenjski list, nr. 21 / 1981, 16 July 1981.
• Odlok o znaku in zastavi Obcine Krsko, adopted on 27 October 1983, and published in the local official gazette Skuposinski dolenjski list, nr. 21 / 1983, 8 December 1983.
• Odlok o izobesanju in uporabi zastav v Obcini Krsko, 27 October 1983, and published in the local official gazette Skuposinski dolenjski list, nr. 21 / 1983, 8 December 1983.
• Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah odloka o izobesanju in uporabi zastav v obcini Krsko, adopted on 17 March 1987, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 14 / 1987, 04 April 1987.
• Odlok o uporabi grba mesta Krsko, adopted on 24 October 1991, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, nr. 24, pp. 971-2, 14 November 1991, with effect on this day. This decision prescribes the coat of arms.

The flag is rectangular in ratio 1:2, green with the emblem in the middle. Details of the size and position of the emblem are not given in the Statutes, but are left for a further decision. Such a decision seems not to have been adopted yet, therefore but the 1981 and subsequent regulations should be followed.

The emblem is picturing the river Sava flowing from the hilly region into the ravines of Krsko fields. It also represents energy. Below the emblem, as a part of it, is written the name of the municipality.

Zeljko Heimer, 28 August 2002

Coat of arms

by Zeljko Heimer

The coat of arms can be blazoned as follows:

Azure, on a mount vert St. John the Evangelist stantant clead gules holding in his sinister a cup or from wich are issuing three snakes, in sinister a city with towers masoned argent and roofed gules.

According to the aforementioned decision, the coat of arms shall be used only on certain documents released by the municipality, and on awards issued by the local unit Krsko (a subdivision of the municipality). The decision prescribes that in all other cases when presentation of the municipality should be made, one should use the emblem of the municipality.

Zeljko Heimer, 14 November 1999