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Enkhuizen (The Netherlands)
Noord-Holland province
Last modified: 2004-12-30 by jarig bakker
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by Jarig Bakker, 7 Jun 2003
adopted 8 Aug 1949
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Enkhuizen municipality
Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 17.069; area: 14,31 km². Settlements:
Enkhuizen (seat), Oosterdijk, Westeinde.
Enkhuizen belonged to West Friesland, which was incorporated in Holland
in 1289 by Count Floris V. The city was a flourishing fishing port, as
reflected by the three herrings on the municipal coat of arms. Enkhuizen
was fortified by the Spaniards and was one of the first cities to revolt
against them (1572). The city walls were rebuilt in 1600 and the city had
more than 50,000 inhabitants in the XVIIth century.
In the XVIIIth century, the port silted up. In 1932, the building of
the Enclosuredam (Afsluitdijk) made of the Zuiderzee a lake called IJsselmeer,
and ended the maritime activity in Enkhuizen and everywhere else on the
former Zuiderzee. The Zuiderzee Museum is a museum-village made of more
than 100 houses and workshops brought from the villages formerly located
on the Zuiderzee.
A house located Zuiderspui 1 in Enkhuizen shows five coat of arms on
its facade: Hoorn, House
of Orange, West-Friesland,
Enkhuizen and Medemblik. The municipal
arms are also shown on houses located Breedstraat 59 and 81.
Enkhuizen is the birth city of Paulus Potter (1625-1654), who painted
a famous bull-calf shown in the Mauritshuis Museum in The
Hague - De Stier van Potter - (but probably less cherished than
dear Us Mem from Ljouwert).
Ivan Sache, 7 Jun 2003
Enkhuizen flags
All flags have been described by Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek (1962)
- [sie62].
The present flag.
Description: Thirteen equally wide horizontal stripes of red and yellow,
with in the canton, high 5 stripes, a white square with the municipal arms.
This flag was adopted by the municipal council on 8 Aug 1949.
I have used the CoA from the Enkhuizen
municipal website for an (IMO) improvement on the image from Shipmate.
It is not clear where the colors originated. For there is even another
flag with four horizontal stripes of red and blue, with over all a yellow
rampant lion (1667, the Napolitan manuscript).
Can we conclude that the last one is the flag of Noord-Holland - and
so connect t