Coat of arms of Slavonia

The coat of arms of Slavonia ( Croatian Grb Slavonije ), as present in the coat of arms crown of arms of Croatia is used is in light blue a six-pointed golden star in gold over a horizontal bar in red , up and down accompanied by a narrower separation in silver ( "Knight Street "). In the beam a right- handing white-bellied black marten .

interpretation

Banovac silver coin depicting a marten (around 1270).

The marten (Croatian kuna ) already adorned the medieval Slavonian silver coin Banovac and also gave its name to today's Croatian currency . The two silver stripes in the coat of arms represent the Sava and the Drava and symbolize the position of Slavonia as an intermediate river country.

Letter of arms for the Kingdom of Slavonia, issued by King Vladislav II in Buda on December 8, 1496 ( Croatian State Archives , 2009).

As the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Slavonia , the bar was at times also made as a wave bar and in green. In a blazon from 1790 it says:

"Between two silver wave-shaped crossbars a naturally colored marten running to the right in the green field, with a blue head and foot edge, in the first of which a golden star can be seen because of the Kingdom of Slavonia."

The interpretation of the two wave bars as the rivers Save and Drava is historical, later the star is also expressly interpreted as Mars , around 1804 :

"Blue, in it a marten running to the right in the green field, between two parallel silver streams, in the upper part, the golden constellation of Mars, because of the Kingdom of Slavonia."

Historical versions

Depiction in the banner on the occasion of Ferdinand II's coronation as King of Hungary and Croatia (1618)

Depiction of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Slavonia by Hugo Gerard Ströhl

Representation with green bar, Zagreb Museum

Coat of arms on the standard of the Ban of Croatia Jelačić (1848)

Common coat of arms of the "Triune Kingdom of Dalmatia , Croatia and Slavonia " (1868–1918)

literature

Mario Jareb: Hrvatski nacionalni simboli [Croatian national symbols] . ALFA dd Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb 2010, ISBN 978-953-297-230-6 , Heraldička zastupljenost hrvatske države i hrvatskih zemalja od nastanaka prvih hrvatskih zemaljskih grbova do 19 stoljeća, nastanak i uporaba grba Slavonije, S. 20-32 .
Marijan Grakalić: Hrvatski grb: Grbovi hrvatskih zemalja [The Croatian coat of arms: The coat of arms of the Croatian countries] . Nakladni zavod Matica hrvatska, Zagreb 1990, ISBN 86-401-0069-1 , Grb Slavonije, p. 47-53 .

Individual evidence

↑ Wapen and Titeln Sr. Kaiserl. Royal Apostol. Majest. Leopold des Zweyten […] Vienna 1790. Quoted from Otto Posse: The seals of the German emperors and kings . tape 5 . Wilhelm and Bertha v. Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1913, supplements, p. 245 ( Wikisource ).
↑ New title and coat of arms of His Roman and Austrian Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, after the changes brought about by the Luneviller Peace Treaty and the Most Highest Pragmatical Ordinance of August 11th, 1804 . Vienna 1804. Quoted from Posse: Die Siegel . tape 5 , enclosures, p. 251 ( Wikisource ).

[1] Wapen and Titeln Sr. Kaiserl. Royal Apostol. Majest. Leopold des Zweyten […] Vienna 1790. Quoted from Otto Posse: The seals of the German emperors and kings . tape 5 . Wilhelm and Bertha v. Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1913, supplements, p. 245 ( Wikisource ).

[2] New title and coat of arms of His Roman and Austrian Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, after the changes brought about by the Luneviller Peace Treaty and the Most Highest Pragmatical Ordinance of August 11th, 1804 . Vienna 1804. Quoted from Posse: Die Siegel . tape 5 , enclosures, p. 251 ( Wikisource ).