Municipality of Smederevska Palanka

Podunavlje District, Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia

Bearer

Adopted

February 2009

Author

Miša Mladenović (insignia of 2009); Dragomir Acović (arms and banner of 2003)

District

Podunavlje District

Region

Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia

Eparchy

Eparchy of Šumadija

Official website

smederevskapalanka.rs

The Municipality of Smederevska Palanka changed its insignia in February 2009, when the arms in three levels and the banner adopted in 2003 to the standards of the Serbian Heraldry Society were withdrawn from use. The new insignia were designed by the designer Miša Mladenović of Smederevska Palanka. The present greater arms consist of a quartered shield with an inescutcheon, a gold mural crown, two female figures as supporters and a ribbon with the motto “ALBA ECCLESIA”, and the flag is white and vertical, with the shield framed by a broad white border. The new designs depart in several details from the practice of Serbian heraldry: there are no banners beside the supporters of the greater arms, and instead of a banner a flag in the form of a gonfalon was adopted. Besides the arms an emblem in the shape of a shield is also used, in orange and blue, with a white fountain and a bridge.

Blazon

Shield

A quartered shield: in the first, red field a silver church with a dome; in the second, silver, a red lion leaping beside a bundle of sharpened stakes; in the third, silver, three red fish one above another over a blue wavy band; in the fourth, blue, a gold bridge in the chief of the field and the silver number “1730”, the year the bridge was built. At the heart of the shield is a smaller shield, divided vertically into blue and green, with a silver fountain from which three jets flow; the author describes this motif as three amphorae from which water pours.

Crown

A golden mural crown with three visible crenellations.

Supporters

Two female figures in white classical robes, with a gold crown on the head, a sword in the hand and a shield resting on the ground.

Compartment

Green, gently rolling grassy ground.

Ribbon

A white ribbon with the Latin motto “ALBA ECCLESIA”.

Flag

A white flag in the form of a gonfalon, in the proportion 2:1, intended to be hung vertically, with the basic shield of the arms surrounded by a broad white border bearing 17 ornaments; this border forms part of the shield, so the arms on the flag differ from the basic arms. On the flag in use in 2019 the greater arms appear in place of the basic shield.

Symbolism and meaning

The seventeen ornaments on the white border around the shield on the flag denote the seventeen villages that make up the municipality.

Earlier insignia

2003–2009Earlier coat of arms and banner

Arms in three levels and a banner, produced to the standards of the Serbian Heraldry Society (author Dragomir Acović) and prescribed by decisions of 30 April 2003. The shield was divided by a low-set, deep line in the form of a palisade: above, on green, the silver west front of a church with a dome and cross, and below, on black, a gold wavy bar, accompanied above and below by a narrow wavy stripe. The middle arms had a gold mural crown with three crenellations and a gold oak wreath with acorns, entwined with a purple ribbon bearing the silver inscription “СМЕДЕРЕВСКА ПАЛАНКА”, and the lesser arms the shield alone. The greater arms were completed by two red lions rampant armed gold, with natural swords with gold hilts, lances with the banners of Serbia and the municipality, and a compartment of a branching gold oak bough with the same purple ribbon. The square banner repeated the upper part of the shield — the green field with the church front above the black lower part, without the wavy bar and stripes.