Coat of arms of the city and holidays
Coat of arms of the City of Zrenjanin
The coat of arms of the City of Zrenjanin is a stylized presentation of Dormition of the Mother of God, in the shape, which was established as the symbol of the town in 1769. Officially, this coat of arms had been used up to 1919, but it was used all until the end of the Second World War, or by the time when the town got the name Petrovgrad (1935-1946).
As the coat of arms of the City of Zrenjanin, it was established by the Charter of the Town of Zrenjanin, adopted by the Assembly of the Town of Zrenjanin on July 11, 2008.
The coat of arms is in the shape of an oval or circular shield with a silver edge, which is on both sides bordered with a golden thread, which ends in the upper part. From it, heavenly light radiates in all directions. Our Blessed Lady is in erect position, with her face looking forward, surrounded by flying angel heads, in clouds arranged in a semi-circle, which separate the shield. Her head is surrounded by a shining nimbus, her loose hair is falling down the left shoulder, her hands poised for prayer on her chest, dressed in a white robe, a light blue cloak lines with crimson on the inside. The lower part of the shield has the red floor as a basis, composed of slabs alternately and visibly arranged. In the center, the body of Our Blessed Lady rests on an open place, giving the impression of a death bed with uncovered shroud, golden candlesticks, and burning candles. The heads of the apostles, three of them on one side, and four on the other, surrounded with nimbuses, having sad faces, gestures expressing pain, surround and monitor the worshiped Mother of their divine master. Above the coat of arms, the town walls with five towers in the shape of a crown can be seen, the background is blue, and the figures are of silver color.
Holidays
November 17
The Day of the City of Zrenjanin – This date was established in memory of the liberation of Veliki-Big Becskerek in the First World War, in 1918, which the First Army of Field Marshal Petar Bojović, Gvozdeni-Iron Regiment "Knjaz Mihajlo", and Infantry Brigade of Colonel Dragutin Ristić – "Brigadier" entered Veliki-Big Becskerek and gave rise to the change of power and change of states in this region. Already on the following day, the power was handed over to the Serbian National Council, which was headed by Dr Slavko Županski, one of the greatest intellectuals of Becskerek of the time before that war. Several days after the final liberation of Vojvodina, its territories were united with the Kingdom of Serbia and, on December 1, 1918, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians, the first joint South-Slavic state was proclaimed.
October 2
It is marked in memory of the liberation of the city from the German occupier in the Second World War, in 1944. On that day, the units of Red Army and partisan national liberation detachments entered Petrovgrad, as it was called at the time, and with joint forces ended the four-year rule of the German occupier in this region. In the battles for liberation, 220 soldiers of Red Army were also killed, who were buried in a common grave in the memorial graveyard in Bagljaš.
