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Križ (Municipality, Zagreb County, Croatia)

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[Municipality flag]

Flag of Križ - Image by Željko Heimer, 13 December 2015


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Presentation of Križ

The municipality of Križ (lit., "Cross") is located some 25 km southeast of Zagreb and some 5 km south-east of Ivanić-Grad. Until 1997, it was part of the Sisak-Moslavina County. Population is 7,406 according to the 2001 census, 1,905 in the village of Križ proper.

Željko Heimer, 8 June 2004


Symbols of Križ

The symbols of Križ (municipal website) are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Općine Križ (text), adopted on 3 December 2015 by the Municipality Assembly.

The symbols were desgined by the Pikant Marketing company, owned by Antonio Grgić in Koprivnica, as stated in Zaključak o odabiru idejnog rješenja grba i zastave Općine Križ (Conclusion on the selection of designs for the coat of arms and flag of the municipality of Križ), adopted on 25 February 2015 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 13 March 2015 in the official gazette of Zagreb County Glasnik Zagrebačke županije, No. 6 (text).
During the session of the Municipality Assembly held on 26 October 2015 (report), the Mayor informed the assembly that the Ministry heraldic commission, in a session held on 20 October, had given a green light for the proposed design, and that formal approval was being waited for.

The flag is described in Article 6 of the Decision, as follows:

The flag of the municipality of Križ is coloured blue, in proportions 2:1, with the coat of arms of the municipality of Križ bordered golden in the centre of it.

Željko Heimer, 28 December 2015


Coat of arms of Križ

[Town coat of arms]

Coat of arms of Križ - Image by Željko Heimer, 13 December 2015

The coat of arms of the municipality of Križ is divided in two fields. In the blue field on a green hill is a golden Latin cross shaped as shown in the coat of arms of the Križ Subcounty of 1875. The use of such a cross in the coat of arms of the municipality of Križ is linked with the historical coat of arms of the Križ Subcounty. The Latin cross in the coat of arms of the municipality of Križ is set on a hill showing the topographical shape of the hill upon which the settlement of Križ is located. The cross symbolises also the name of the Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross as well as that of the settlement and of the municipality. The green colour in the coat of arms symbolizes the green fields of the municipality of Križ surrounding the settlement of Križ.

The cross (in Croatian, križ) makes the arms canting . The place was until 1873 a small fort, part of the Military Frontier and named Vojni Križ (Military Cross); after the demilitarization it was transferred to the Bjelovar County and made the seat of a short-lived subdivision called Subcounty (podžupanija). In 1886, the Bjelovar-Križevci County was formed, and Križ became the seat of its smaller subdivision, called kotar.

According to the municipal website, the Križ Subcounty had been using a coat of arms since 1875, presented as "also an illustration of the old arms of the Kotar seat of Military Cross from a record of the Archdiaconate of Čazma by an unknown author". The coat of arms is shown in a modern redrawing that may be interpreted as "Divided by a bendlet azure gules a cross bottony or and vert a sword fesswise over an oak leaf proper".
It seems that the Greek cross bottony in thse arms, which was used for inspiration of the Latin cross bottony in the modern arms, was inspired in turn by the saltire bottony in the 1871 arms of the Bjelovar County - being also the current arms of the Bjelovar-Bilogora County -; or could it be that the saltire in the 1871 arms was meant to represent that half of the county in the first place - something that was not recorded explicitly so far.

Željko Heimer, 13 December 2015


Former symbols of Križ

[Municipality flag]         [Town coat of arms]

Former flag and arms of Križ - Images by Željko Heimer, 29 March 2008

The former flag of Križ (photos, 23 March 2012) was in proportions 1:2, light blue with the former municipal coat of arms in canton.
The coat of arms, used apparently from quite some time, possibly since around 1997, was an unheraldic device combining elements of lowland landscape, the church belfry tower from the main village, and an oak leaf.
The table flag (photo, 20 December 2011) was light blue, ending triangularly, with the coat of arms in the middle, the red inscription "OPĆINA KRIŽ" above a black line (or, possibly, a wattle ornament) and some kind of golden ornament above.

Željko Heimer & Tomislav Šipek, 24 June 2012