Municipality of Šentrupert
The Municipality of Šentrupert is a municipality in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šentrupert. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Šentrupert was established on 14 June 2006. Before that date, it was a local community within the Municipality of Trebnje.
On 15 April 2010, the municipal councillors adopted a coat of arms and flag proposed by Aleksander Hribovšek. The coat of arms was based upon that posthumously and fictitiously attributed to Hemma of Gurk and that of the family of Barbo von Waxenstein. It consists of a lion or on a field azure holding a crescent argent in its right paw.