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Sikirevci (Municipality, Brod-Posavina County, Croatia)

Flag of Sikirevci - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 August 2013

Presentation of Sikirevci
Flag of Sikirevci
Coat of arms of Sikirevci
Ceremonial flag of Sikirevci

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Presentation of Sikirevci

The municipality of Sikirevci (2,707 inhabitants in 2001, 1,969 in the village of Sikirevci) is located some 40 km east of Slavonski Brod.
The village's motto, Sikirevci selo u dva reda, izaleka ko Osik izgleda, is obviously a rhyme from a typical folk song of the region, which could be translated more or less as "Sikirevci a village in two rows, from afar it looks like Osijek". The two rows refer to the typical rural organization of houses next to each other along the main road with economic buildings and fields behind those. Since the liberation from the Turks, the village has been the seat of the 5th Company of the Brod Regiment, therefore, the seat of certain level of military administration of the Croatian-Slavonian Military Border.

Željko Heimer, 10 December 2006

Flag of Sikirevci

The symbols of Sikirevci are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi općine Sikirevci, adopted on 30 March 2004 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 25 May 2004 in the County official gazette Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 6.
The adoption of symbols was prescribed by Decision Odluka o pristupanju izrade Idejnog rješenja grba, zastave i počasne zastave općine Sikirevci, adopted on 18 February 2004 and published on 25 May 2004 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 6.
Decision Odluka o prihvacanju izvješca o podnesenom zahtjevu za odobrenje grba i zastave općine Sikirevci, adopted on 15 February 2005 and published on 5 March 2005 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 3, acknowledged the approval of the symbols by the central authorities, Rješenje Središnjeg državnog ureda za upravu o odobravanju grba i zastave općine Sikirevci, adopted on 13 December 2004 and published on 5 March 2005 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 3.

The Municipal Statutes were amended by Statutory Decision Odluka o izmjeni i dopuni Statuta općine Sikirevci, adopted on 15 February 2005 and published on 5 March 2005 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 3, to include the description of the symbols. This is repeated in the Municipal Statutes Statut općine Sikirevci, adopted on 31 January 2006 and published on 13 March 2006 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 3, and in the current Statutes Statut općine Sikirevci, adopted on 15 June 2009 and published on 29 July 2007 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 10 (text).

The symbols were designed by the Heraldic Art d.o.o. company (images), from Rijeka, commissioned by Decision Odluka o odabiru najpovoljnijeg ponuditelja za izradu Idejnog i izvedbenog likovnog rješenja grba, zastave i počcasne zastave za općinu Sikirevci, adopted on 30 March 2004 and published on 25 May 2004 in Službeni vjesnik Brodsko-posavske županije, No. 6. This was payed 10,736 HRK, roughly 1,500 EUR.

The flag is described in Article 6 of the Statutes as in proportions 1:2, green with the coat of arms, bordered white, in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 21 August 2013

Coat of arms of Sikirevci

Coat of arms of Sikirevci - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 August 2013

The coat of arms is presented in Article 5 of the Statutes as "the historical coat of arms of the Municipality of Sikirevci", which is absurd since it was adopted in 2004, and described as "in a shield shape, the geometrical division of the shield being in the shape of a shield within a shield. In the central (inescutcheon) of the shield in golden/yellow on green ground a stump into which is stuck in a bend sinister an axe".
The arms are indeed "Or an axe argent handled maroon bendwise sinister stuck in a stump issuant from a base vert".
The arms are canting, the axe being called in Croatian sjekira, locally sikira.

Željko Heimer, 16 November 2013

Ceremonial flag of Sikirevci

Ceremonial flag of Sikirevci - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 August 2013

The ceremonial flag is described in Article 6 of the Statutes as "grren with a wattle ornament".

The flag is indeed a green gonfalon ending triangularly with a golden fringe with the coat of arms bordered white in the middle, above it golden inscription of the name of the municipality and below a wreath of an oak branch and a wheat garb.

Željko Heimer, 10 December 2006