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1 July 2012
The municipality of Leoberto Leal (3,365 inhabitants in 2010; 29,119 ha) is
located 140 km west of Florianópolis.
The municipality is named for
lawyer Leoberto Laus Leal (1912-1958), member of the Chamber of Deputies of
Santa Catarina from 1955 to 1958, who was killed in a plane crash in São José
dos Pinhais, together with former President of the Republic Nereu Ramos and
Governor Jorge Lacerda.
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
Gyronny of yellow and green, with in the centre a white-edged green shield with a yellow flower bearing a red shield with a Catherine wheel in the centre.
Official website at
http://www.leobertoleal.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 1 July 2012
The flag of Leoberto Leal is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 119 promulgated
on 1 February 1983.
Article 1.
The municipal flag of Leoberto Leal,
elaborated by the heraldist Edison Mueller, shall have the following
description: "Gyronny vert and yellow, charged in the center with the municipal
coat of arms outlined in white".
Article 2.
The municipal flag, in
compliance with the best Luso-Brazilian tradition, shall have the following
rationale.
I - Gyronny, that is, the quadrilateral field of the flag divided
into eight equal parts shaped like right-angled triangles, each named gyron, by
four right lines crossing each other in the center, two connecting the
quadrilateral's angles, either vertically or horizontally, and the two other
equidistant from the two lateral sides.
II - Vert and yellow, considering
that the colors of an armored flag shall be derived from the basic colors of the
municipal arms, in the blazon's natural sequence, vert (green, in the shade
known as Veronese green), or, and gules (matching light red). On flags, or is
generally substituted by bright yellow and silver by white, the matching colors
of the heraldic chromatic table. The upper gyron, at hoist, shall be green, the
second, yellow, and so on. The bladed wheel shall be white.
III - Charged in
the center, exactly covering the intersection of the lines forming the gyronny
field,
IV - With the municipal arms prescribed by Law No. ... promulgated on
..., without its outer ornaments (mural crown and scroll), therefore reduced to
the shield proper, which is described in heraldic language as follows: "Iberian
shield. Vert a sextofoil or inescutcheon gules a bladed wheel, or St.
Catherine's wheel, silver".
V - Outlined in white.
Article 3.
The
features of the municipal flag shall obey the following rules
I - The flag's
width shall be 20 units.
II - The rim of the wheel shall be inscribed within
two concentric circumferences.
III - Outline excluded, the coat of arms shall
be distant of 6 units from the flag's upper edge.
IV - The shield's field, in
compliance with the usual shape known as Iberian of Portuguese, shall be
constituted of a quadrilateral of 7 units in width on 5 units in length, united
in base by a semi-circle of 3.5 units in radius.
V - The shield's center is
determined as follows.
a) The shield shall be divided vertically into two
equal parts, equidistant of 3.5 units from its flanks.
b) On this line,
exactly 4 units from the shield's upper edge, point "C" shall be the shield's
center.
VI - The sextofoil shall be inscribed within an imaginary
circumference of 3.5 cm in radius, or 7 cm in diameter, whose center matches the
shield's center.
VII - The centers of the small imaginaries circumferences
that delimit, small points excluded, the sextofoil's petals shall be equidistant
of 60 degrees from each other, in an imaginary circumference of 2.2 units in
radius, or 4.4 units in diameter, whose center matches the shield's center.
VIII - Each sextofoil's petal, the small point excluded, shall be inscribed
within an imaginary circumference of 1.05 unit in radius. The point of each
petal shall be 0.25 unit in length.
IX - The maximum depth of the concave
space that separates two adjacent petals of the sextofoil shall match a point of
an imaginary circle of 0.6 unit in radius, or 1.2 unit in diameter, whose center
matches the center of the shield and of the sextofoil.
X - The distance
between the escutcheon and the shield's upper edge shall be 2.4 units; for its
flanks, 2.1 units.
XI - The field of the escutcheon, whose shape exactly
matches that of the main shield, shall be composed of a quadrilateral of 0.25
unit in width on 2 units in length, united in base by a semi-circular of 1.4
unit in radius.
XII - The center of the escutcheon is determined as described
in Article V of this Law. After vertical division of the escutcheon, its center
matches the point of the dividing line exactly located 1.6 unit from its upper
edge. The escutcheon's center matches the shield's center.
XIII - The bladed
wheel shall be inscribed within an imaginary circumference of 1.3 unit in
radius, or 2.5 units in diameter, whose center matches the shield and
escutcheon's center. The blades shall be 0.25 unit in length.
XIV - The rim
of the wheel shall be inscribed within two concentric circumferences, the outer
of 2.1 units in diameter, the inner of 1.6 unit in diameter.
XV - The hub of
the wheel shall be inscribed within two concentric circumferences, the outer of
0.5 unit in diameter, the inner of 0.3 unit in diameter.
XVI - The imaginary
axes of the wheel's rays form between each other angles of 45 degrees. The width
of the wheel's rays shall be 0.2 unit.
XVII - The shield's outline shall be
0.1 unit.
XVIII - The two sides of the flag, in compliance with heraldic
tradition, shall be equivalent, mirroring each other.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/l/leoberto-leal/lei-ordinaria/1983/12/119/lei-ordinaria-n-119-1983-institui-a-bandeira-do-municipio-de-leoberto-leal-e-da-outras-providencias
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms of Leoberto Leal is
prescribed by Municipal Law No. 120 promulgated on 17 February 1983.
Article 1.
The coat of arms of the municipality, as proposed by the heraldist
Edison Mueller, is blazoned as follows/
- Iberian shield, vert a sextofoil or
charged with an escutcheon gules superimposed with a bladed wheel, or St.
Catherine's wheel, argent;
- An eight-towered mural crown port and windows
gules;
- The writing "LEOBERTO LEAL" or on a scroll vert.
Appendix
Blazon
[Description of Article 1 repeated verbatim]
Interpretation
An Iberian shield, with the point formed by a semi-circle, also known as Spanish
or Flemish-Iberian.
The shield is also called Portuguese, because this
specific and characteristic peninsular shape was widely used in the Middle Ages
and, in Portugal, at the time of discovery and colonization of Brazil. The best
Brazilian heraldists agree that this is the most appropriate shape for Brazilian
civic symbols. In national heraldry, it evokes, like no other shield's shape
could do, the historic origins and the characteristics of the population of
Brazil, whose formation was mostly contributed by Portuguese as the primary
ethnic component and as the language.
Vert means green, in the shade
known as Veronese green.
The field vert of the shield represents the
municipality's territory and the exuberance of the forests, the green pastures
and the corn fields. Green also recalls the old name of the region where the
municipality is located, Vargedo, when it was a simple district of Nova Trento,
where the settlement of the area began.
Beside the popular fleurs-de-lis,
different flowers of conventional design and elegant profile are used in
heraldry; these are imaginary flowers, which do not accurately represent
determined plant species: quadrifoil, cinquefoil, sextofoil, octofoil etc. They
share round petals ending in a small point and a central opening (void) showing
the field. Their proper name indicate the number of petals for each type,
accordongly a sextofoil has six petals.
All these heraldic flowers can also
generically represent any plant and, by extension, the particular flora of a
region or agriculture in general.
Or is traditionally connected with wealth.
Accordingly, the sextofoil or on a field vert means that Leoberto Leal's income
mostly relies on agriculture, mostly tobacco, onion, beans and maize
cultivation.
The central escutcheon recalls the seat of the municipality,
the radiating center of the prescriptions of the Municipal Powers and the
natural point of convergence of civic and religious acts. Red, in heraldic
language, gules, emphasizes the intensity of the inhabitants' elevated moral
spirit, civic principles and relevant goals.
The escutcheon is charged with a
bladed, eight-rayed wheel. Also called St. Catherine's wheel, it recalls the
wheel used to martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria, which is celebrated on 25
November [...] as the state and municipality's patron saint.
The mural
crown or surmounting the shield is, in Brazil, the proper and consecrated emblem
of the political and administrative autonomy granted to the municipality by the
Federal Constitution. It represents the town proper, as the seat of the
municipality, which considers itself, on the model of medieval cities, as
surrounded by protection walls and defended by towers. [...]
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/l/leoberto-leal/lei-ordinaria/1983/12/120/lei-ordinaria-n-120-1983-institui-as-armas-do-municipio-de-leoberto-leal-e-da-outras-providencias
Leis Municipais database
Photo
https://www.facebook.com/LegislativoLeobertoLealSC/photos/1544173509093480
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
