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Creil (The Netherlands)

Noordoostpolder, Flevoland province

Last modified: 2005-09-24 by jarig bakker
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[Creil village flag] by Jarig Bakker, 16 Aug 2005
adopted: c. 1970; design: a promising younster. See also:

Creil village

Creil is a village in the Noordoostpolder in Flevoland province. Stefan Lambrechts spotted the Creiler villageflag at this website.
The flag is based on the village arms. Designer unknown, date of adoption: c. 1970.

Info from Anton Jansen's "Vlaggen", no. 91 (1996): 1293:
The Creiler arms were designed by a youngster in 1978. the main element is a lozenge; it contains a red-white-blue half (Holland) with a half tree-of-life, and a blue-white-red half (Fryslân) (part of the polder of Creil was managed by Fryslân) with a half fleur-de-lis (a half "pompeblêd" (waterlilyleaf) would have been less recognisable). The top of the lozenge is surrounded by a golden ring, with two silver ploughshares. Below the lozenge is a silver anchor, as symbol of the sea-bed, now dry, to which Creil is "anchored".

The tree can also been seen as representing the famous "Creilerbos", a major bone of contention between Holland and Fryslân. This was not a forest but a band of marshy land, used by Frisians to hunt Hollanders and vice versa. Mr. Gale Iges Galama managed to catch Count Floris II (the Fat, 1091-1121) (or vice versa), while quarrelling over hunting rights. The Creilerbos was between Enkhuizen, Staveren and Texel. It disappeared in the 14th