Town Symbols

The official description of a banner is like this: The red leaf with the white St.Andrew`s cross with the arms coming out of the first and the fourth quarters of a flagstaff and a flaunting edge.The width is in proportion to the length 2:3.

History:
     The history of the origin of a banner is quite short.On June 6,1999 the Town Council agreed to the design of the appearance of the town banner and this design was passed to the Parliament Subcommittee for heraldry.There the vexilological correctness of the design,the aesthetical level and the originality were considered.The heraldic subcommittee composed of experts of the domain of the helardry certified the Prachatice design without any supplementary changes. (Comment: Vexilology = science about flags)
     The town has had the right to use the town banner (the town flag) since Decembre 6,1999 when during the state ceremony in the rooms of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Czech Republic the Mayor of the Town Ing. Jan Bauer took over the decree entitling the town Prachatice to use its banner from the hands of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Václav Klaus.
     The banner was taken over to the citizens of the town in a ceremonial way on April 6,2000.

Reasons for the appearance of the flag:
     The authors of the design Mgr.Pavel Fencl and MUDr. Jan Antonín Mager got out of heraldic and vexilological principles which must be applied in making the design.
     It means the colourfulness is obligatory and it must get out of heraldic colours which are in the Prachatice town emblem - red and silver.
     The motif of the St.Anrew`s cross originated by the conventionalization of a heraldic element in the town emblem - the crossed keys.This simplified figure makes using the banner (the flag) in a substantial minimization possible without misrepresentation of the sense.