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Vodice (Town, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia)

Flag of Vodice - Image by Željko Heimer, 20 August 2006

Presentation of Vodice
Flag of Vodice
Coat of arms of Vodice
Proposed symbols of Vodice

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Presentation of Vodice

Vodice is located 10 km north of Šibenik, on the coast. It has about 9,000 inhabitants, 5,000. Vodice was granted the Town statutes in 1997.

Željko Heimer, 23 July 2004

Flag of Vodice

The symbols of Vodice are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Općine Vodice, adopted on 15 July 1996 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 12 August 1996 in the County official gazette Službeni vjesnik Županije Šibenske, No. 7.
The companion Decision Odluka o uporabi grba i zastave Općine Vodice, adopted on 15 July 1996 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 12 August 1996 in Službeni vjesnik Županije Šibenske, No. 7, regulates the use of the symbols.
The symbols are described in the Town Statutes Statut Grada Vodica, adopted on 5 June 1997 by the Town Assembly and published on 18 July 1997 in Službeni vjesnik Šibensko-kninske županije, No. 6.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, ultramarine blue with the coat of arms, bordered yellow (not mentioned in the Decision, in the middle. The size of the coat of arms is 2/3 of the flag"s width.

The County website includes a photo from the celebration of the Day of the Town of Vodice. On the photo are shown behind the mayor, the national flag and a logo flag of Vodice. It is obviously a logo flag, white with the red inscription "Vodice" surrounded with some spirals, probably a tourist board logo (the previous one, now a new one is used).
This is hardly an official flag, but it was used in an official capacity.

Željko Heimer, 1 August 2009

Coat of arms of Vodice

Coat of arms of Vodice - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 July 2004

The coat of arms is "Per fess or and azure overall a well argent ensigned with a chuch or, in chief an embatllement also argent and in base a bar gules above two barrulets wavy argent all within a border of ultramarine".
The symbolic of the elements is given as: yellow field - olive oil, blue field - sea and water. The well is a symbol of water after which the place got its name, embattlements represent the protection and history, the red represents for wine. The church is the Church of the Holy Cross (1421).

Željko Heimer, 20 August 2006

Proposed symbols of Vodice

Proposed symbols of Vodice, two sets - Images by Željko Heimer, 11 April 2009

The Town admnistration became aware that the symbols adopted in 1996 are against the heraldic tradition and not conforming to the state regulations, and started to prepare for the adoption of new symbols. After rejection of some proposals in 2008, the municipal website published two proposals, asking the citizens' opinions.
One proposed coat of arms is divided per bend by a spiral division azure and argent and the other is azure a well argent. Each is accompanied with a flag proposal, being a banner of the arms, in proportions 5:8.
Both proposals for the coat of arms formally meet the criteria of central authorities and shall probably be approved if adopted (unless the second proposal is disqualified being, coincidentally, too similar to the arms of the Rathkay family); however, if they are adopted, the flags shall have to be redesigned to conform to the requirements of a single-colored flag with the coat of arms in it.

Željko Heimer, 11 April 2009