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Hanovice, Czech Republic

Olomouc okres, Olomoucký kraj

Last modified: 2001-12-08 by jarig bakker
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[Hanovice flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 26 Oct 2001, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 28 Nov 2000 See also:

Haòovice other flag

[Hanovice other flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 29 Nov 2001

The flag of Haòovice at this site has to the left three columns, while in Petr Exner's VexLex there are four. The description is the same. What is the correct image?
Jarig Bakker, 28 Nov 2001

Hard to say.
According to description on the site reported by you both versions are correct. The text next to flag doesn't give the number of bars. How is it possible? I think that also the flag was designed by an heraldist.
Karel Schwarzenberg has written, that "our old fathers sometimes stripped their arms as they wanted". He meant by that, that heraldry was not such an exact science and the artistical feeling was also important thing.
The bars (I can not say "fretty" field, because the bars are not per bend and per bend sinister, while e.g. in case of Prostìjov, where I used this term is it so) are symbolic depiction of Saint Lawrence´s grill (Vavøinec in Czech). St. Lawrence was Patron Saint of Haòovice village. He is also main figure in depicted local seal.
The other figures are derivations from local landlor