Hedgehog in the coat
How did the hedgehog get into the coat of arms of the Municipality of Beretinec?
Beretinec municipality is a municipality in Varaždin County. Dragutin Antolek Orešek lived and ended his life in the county where he lived. Namely, the hedgehog symbolizes hard work and love for one's own home, so the people of Berentin show their attachment to their region. However, the hedgehog here is not only a symbol of attachment to the end, but also to one man - Dragutin Antolek Oresek.
Although Dragutin was born in Prelog, he spent a large part of his life in Varaždin, and the people of Varaždin loved him immensely. Why? Because he was an ardent Illyrian, at that time he persistently and courageously fought against Hungarian and German domination, and in 1862 in Varaždin, in Platzer's printing house, he also printed the satirical paper "Podravski jež".
On the cover of the first, and unfortunately, the only issue, he published a drawing of a hedgehog telling the readers: "Godfather, trust yourself and your beaks!" goes to Vienna for a short time.
When he returned to Varaždin, Orešek did not have such a successful political life, and spent more and more time at his stepmother's estate in Beretinac. And finally, right in Beretinac, on that estate in 1883, he ended his fruitful and stormy life.
In memory of this meritorious man from Varadžin, the people of Beretin put his hedgehog on the coat of arms of their municipality, to permanently bear witness to Dragutin's, but also to their patriotism and loyalty to their own region.
