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by Zeljko Heimer, 8 December 2002
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Ccommunity from Krapina-Zagorje County - Gornja Stubica. The
coat of arms and the flag is adopted some time around 1999
presumably, since it they are already described in 2002 Statutes:
Statut Opcine Gornja Stubica, 13.03.2002. Službeni glasnik
Krapinsko- zagorske županije, 11/94, 4/01 i ?/02, Opcina
Gornja Stubica, <http://gornjastubica.com>
10.10.2002.
The coat of arms is silver on a green hill inflamed red a golden
crown - bull's muzzle. The flag is light blue with the coat of
arms bordered yellow in the middle. Ratio 1:2.
Ceremonial flag is shown on the web-site. It's vertically hoisted
blue banner with the coat of arms in the middle, above it in
three arcs the name of the community and below two linden
branches, all bordered golden.
The simple crown inflamed symbolize the leader of the peasant's
uprising of 1573, Matija Gubec. The uprising was the largest in
this part of Europe and included serfs from Northern Croatia and
Slovenia. Its center was in Gornja Stubica near by an impresive,
still standing linden tree. A simple iron crown as that in the
coat of arms heated to shining was used in torture when Gubec was
put to death after his capturing. The linden branch in the
ceremonial flag are similar to those used in the ceremonial flag
of the County (as well as in some other ceremonial flags in the
region) and also reffer to the great linden tree in Gornja
Stubica.
Zeljko Heimer, 8 December 2002
Gornja Stubica is a community in the Kapina-Zagorje County.
Population about 6, 000, the vilage of the same name just under
1,000. From some tourist propaganda leaflets I got from Tomislav
Šaipek the image of the Previous Coat of Arms
used before the adoption of the current pattern. The coat of arms
is divded with a bend argent, in chief azure St. George argent
and in base gules on a mount vert a linden tree proper. The
shield is topped with a mural crown with mantle azure and argent
in dexter and guleas and or in sinister and on a ribbon or below
there is the name of the community. The connection with the new
coat of arms may not be obvious, but both the new coat of arms
(the flaming muzzle) and the linden tree here refer to the same
peasant's uprising in 1573 lead by Matija Gubec, having the
headquarters beneath the linden tree near the Gornja Stubica
Church.The coat of arms was most certainly not approved by the
Ministry, and there is no flag reported to go with it. I believe
it was brought into usage in mid-1990's.
Zeljko Heimer