Former City Municipality of Petrovaradin
South Bačka District, Region of Vojvodina
- Bearer
- Petrovaradin; City Municipality of Petrovaradin (2002–2019)
- Arms granted
- 6 October 1751, by decision of the Aulic War Council in Vienna
- City municipality
- Established on 14 June 2002, abolished on 25 March 2019.
- District
- South Bačka District
- Region
- Region of Vojvodina
- Eparchy
- Eparchy of Bačka
Petrovaradin received its arms on 6 October 1751, when the War Council in Vienna granted it insignia as a free company of riflemen. Those historical arms were also used by the City Municipality of Petrovaradin, formed on 14 June 2002 from the parts of Novi Sad on the Srem bank of the Danube — Petrovaradin, Sremska Kamenica, Bukovac, Ledinci and Stari Ledinci — and abolished on 25 March 2019.
The flag of the city municipality was light blue, with the shield in the centre.
Blazon
Quartered: in the first and fourth, gold fields a black double-headed eagle displayed; in the second, silver field the holy apostle Peter in blue dress and a gold cloak, holding two keys in his raised right hand and with his left on his breast; in the third, blue field five gold birds. In the centre a small red shield with a bent arm in armour brandishing a curved sabre.
Above the shield a crown of five leaves set with blue and red precious stones, and above it an arm with a sabre turned to the right.
In the greater arms, on one side a knight in armour with a wooden club, and on the other a Serbian frontiersman in a blue tunic, red trousers and yellow boots, with a flanged mace.
The shield rests on military trophies: two cannon, four flags, a drum, two kettledrums and cannonballs.
A light blue flag with the shield in the centre (city municipality, 2002–2019).
Symbolism and meaning
The imperial double-headed eagle denotes the Habsburg authority under which the arms were granted. Saint Peter was the patron of the fortress and the whole garrison, and the gold birds in the blue sky are interpreted as a sign of peace. The armoured arm with the sabre in the central shield is a reminder of the hard wars fought around the fortress and in its surroundings.
