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Polder board Delfland (The Netherlands)

Hoogheemraadschap Delfland

by Gerard van der Vaart, 11 February 1996

Hoogheemraadschap Delfland
Old Delfland flag
Oldest Delfland flag

See also:

Hoogheemraadschap Delfland

The Delfland Polderboard manages the watercirculation in the densely populated area around Delft (Zuidholland); its borders are the North Sea in the West, the Nieuwe Waterweg to the South, and the line Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zoetermeer and Wassenaar.
Gerard van der Vaart, 11 February 1996

On the flag of the Polder Board Delfland (The Netherlands), it looks as if they quarter Bavaria (the famous blue and white lozenges), and I can't fathom the reason. Even during the 16th Century, before The Netherlands freed itself from Spanish rule being part of the Holy Roman Empire, the Bavarian Wittelsbachs did not have any holdings in The Netherlands. I assume that the arms are actually those of the city of Delft - if they were just the arms of the organization the Bavarian influence would be even stranger. Delft and Munich seem very ill-matched, even though the inhabitants of both towns love beer and gardens and both support football teams whose records in past years have been indifferent at best. Munich is of course much larger than Delft, and although Delft has a world-famous technical university, so does Munich, as well as having several other ones as well. So what's the Bavarian connection?
Ron Lahav, 21 Nov 2003

Delfland was transformed from a marshy region to an agricultural area from t