Municipality of Srbobran

South Bačka District, Region of Vojvodina

The Municipality of Srbobran uses lesser and greater arms, adopted around 2007 in place of the earlier emblem from the socialist period; the new design is closer to the rules of modern Serbian heraldry, but does not follow them in everything. The shield shows a panorama of the place with church towers beneath the sun, a bridge and a river, and the flag is divided diagonally into a green, a white and a blue field. The use of a white flag with the arms in the centre has also been recorded.

Blazon

Shield

A shield with a narrow silver border, divided horizontally into three fields: in the upper, blue, silver buildings — a church with one tower, a building with columns and a church with two towers — and above them a gold sun with fourteen rays; in the middle, green, a silver arched bridge; in the lower, blue, three silver wavy bars.

Crown

In place of a crown, above the shield are three small discs made up of concentric circles — blue in the centre, then green and white.

Supporters

Two silver winged creatures rampant resembling griffins; behind the shield are lances with the Serbian tricolour on the dexter and the municipal flag on the sinister, both in the proportion 2:3 instead of the usual square form of a banner. The shield is framed by a wreath of gold ears — of wheat on the dexter side, and on the sinister of a plant that cannot be reliably identified.

Compartment

A dark red surface of irregular shape.

Flag

A cloth divided diagonally: a green triangle in the lower corner next to the lance, a white diagonal stripe across the middle and a blue triangle in the upper corner at the fly. A white flag with the arms in the centre is also in use.

Earlier insignia

until c. 2007Earlier emblem

An emblem typical of the socialist period, last cited as official around 2002. A shield with a rounded base, with a brown field and gold border; at the top the Latin-script inscription SRBOBRAN, beneath it a semicircular gold sun with rays and a red five-pointed star at its centre, over the sun five stylised gold human figures holding hands, representing the peoples living in the municipality; in the lower part gold wavy lines, and at the foot an ear of wheat on the left and part of a cogwheel on the right. The brown was meant to evoke the fertile soil of Bačka.