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Korytná (Czech Republic)

Uherske Hradiste okres, Zlin region

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Korytná municipality flag

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Korytná municipality flag

by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 12 Sep 2001, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 14 Jun 2000

Petr Exner sent me this flag after a request to identify the object between the swords. It happens to be a prince cap.
Blas Delgado Ortiz, 18 Jul 2001

The red thing in Korytná (District Uherské Hradiště) flag is really a Princely hat (really without pearls, orb and without ermine). Only the yellow part should remained letter "T" upside down - I mean there should be one short and thin yellow strip more (the hat has four golden arches - one visible). This is usual way how princely hat of St. Wenceslas is depicted.
Ales Krizan, 27 Aug 2001

I searched for the picture in my archiv. So, I attached a scan of original pictures, which was sent to Subcommittee for heraldry and vexillology of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (negotiated 31.5.2000). These pictures are from Czech heraldik M. Pavlů. In Pavlů´s text is written: " ... there was used the St. Wenceslas symbolic (duke´s hat over crossed swords), ...".
This symbol was used because there is a St.Venceslas church in Korytna.

St. Venceslas is the patron of the Czech state. Born 907. In 921, after the death of his father, he was called by the "parliament" of the Czechs to the princely throne. Because he was young, in fact he took reign only in 924. In 935 he was murdered by his brother Boleslav. After his death the