Municipality of Bač

South Bačka District, Region of Vojvodina

The Municipality of Bač uses as its device an unheraldic emblem in the shape of a shield, with the bilingual inscription “БАЧ – VAČ” on a ribbon in the colours of the Serbian tricolour. The central motif of the emblem is the buildings for which Bač is known — the keep of the medieval fortress and churches with bell towers — shown in red in a circle with a gold border.

Bač has a long tradition of seals: the oldest surviving town seal, from 1507, bears the tower of the Bač Fortress, and seals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries repeat the motifs of the fortress and the church.

Blazon

Insignia

A shield shading from blue to white; in the centre a circle with a gold border in which red buildings stand against the sky — the tower of the fortress, a church with a Baroque bell tower and another bell tower, all with crosses. In the lower part of the shield a green plain, and at the base blue and white wavy stripes. On each side of the shield a gold ear of wheat.

Ribbon

Above the shield, a ribbon in the colours of the Serbian tricolour with the inscription “БАЧ – VAČ”.

Flag

A white flag with the emblem of the municipality in the centre.

Symbolism and meaning

The emblem gathers the recognisable buildings of Bač — the fortress, from which the whole of Bačka takes its name, and the churches with bell towers. The plain, ears of wheat and wavy stripes refer to agriculture and to the Danube, beside which the municipality lies.

Earlier insignia

1507Oldest city seal

A round seal 25 mm in diameter, preserved on a bond of 1507, shows the tower of the Bač Fortress and the Latin inscription “CIVITATIS BACH” (Town of Bač).

1786Municipal seal

An oval seal measuring 26 × 32 mm with the ground plan of the fortress, at whose centre part of the fortification is shown, and part of a laurel wreath; the inscription “SIGILLUM CIVITATS AR. EPPI. BACS” marks Bač as an archiepiscopal town.

1828Municipal seal

In the first decades of the nineteenth century Bač received a new municipal seal, oval, measuring 25 × 30 mm. The seal of 1828 shows the tower and front of the Roman Catholic parish church and the walls of the fortress, with the Latin inscription “SIGILVM ARCHIEPISCOPIS CIVITATIS BACS”. The lesser arms of Bač were reconstructed from that seal.