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Ernestinovo is located about 15 km south of Osijek. It has about 2,200 inhabitants, half of them living in the village of the same name.
The settlement was established in the mid-19th century, settled mostly by Danube Swabians from Bacs (Bačka) County; it was
named after the lady of the manor, Ernestina Klein, as Ernenstinenhof. The
nearby village of Laslovo is much older: the Croatian-Hungarian king
Ladislas erected a church dedicated to St. Ladislas (Hungarian, Laszlo)
in the early 15th century and by the end of the 19th century most of the
population was Hungarian. After the First World War, the villages were populated by no less than eight ethnic communities, including Croats, Serbs, Hungarians, Germans, Italians, Macedonians, Bosnian Muslims. At the
end of the Second World War, it was much devastated in final operations and the majority of Germans was exiled. The villages were populated moslty by
Serbs and Croats from the Lika region. The villages again were much
devastated and inhabitants exiled after the Serb agression in the 1990s.
Today, beside the Croatian majority, the municipality has considerable
Hungarian population (ca. 20%) and large Serb population (ca. 8%), with
remnants of some other minorities.
Željko Heimer, 2 January 2011
On the 8th session of the Municipal Assembly, held in 2009 or early 2010, the "issuing of an invited contest for the coat of arms of the municipality" was discussed; presumably, one or several artists were invited to submit their proposals. On the 12th session, which might have been held in 2010, there was "considering proposal(s) for the coat of arms and the flag of Ernestinovo". The Croatian text does not permit discerning whether it was one proposal or several being considered.
The Municipality Statutes, in accordance with the State legislation regarding the issue, explicitly permits the use of the minority symbols in the municipality.
Željko Heimer, 2 January 2011
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image by Željko Heimer,
10 April 2023
In 2020, the municipality received its symbols.
The coat of arms of Ernestinovo is in green between a golden chisel and mallet
in a silver spike, an oak trunk grows with one green leaf each from the left and
right in the top shaped into the figure of a young woman. The figure of the girl
represents Mistress Ernestina, the former owner of the estate, after whom the
place was named. The sculptor's tool and her figure made of wood symbolize the
tradition of the sculptor's colony operating in Ernestinovo. The flag is white
with a yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle.
The municipality of
Ernestinovo ordered the creation of its symbols through an invitational tender
and discussed the received proposals in 2010, but they were not adopted then. In
2014, the municipal pages displayed a coat of arms, which seems to be only a
personal initiative of the editor of the pages, showing the heads of naive
sculptures in gold above a blue and white wavy beam above green. It undoubtedly
served as an inspiration for the later adopted coat of arms.
https://radio.hrt.hr/radio-osijek/vijesti/u-ernestinovu-otvoren-djecji-vrtic-ogledalce-3753661
Tomislav Šipek, 10 April 2023
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image by Željko Heimer,
10 April 2023
The ceremonial flag is an ivory gonfalon with a coat of arms in the middle, the name of the municipality above and ornaments of ears of grain below in the tails.
Tomislav Šipek, 10 April 2023
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