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Nagele (The Netherlands)

Noordoostpolder, Flevoland province

Last modified: 2005-05-07 by jarig bakker
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[Nagele flag] by Jarig Bakker, 26 Apr 2005
Adopted 1991; design: Dorpsbelang Nagele See also:

Nagele village

Nagele is a village in the Noordoostpolder, Flevoland province.
Flag: three horizontal stripes blue - red - blue, proportioned c. 5:1:2, in top hoist charged with the village arms.
Adopted 1991; design: Dorpsbelang Nagele.

Arms: quartered or and gules; in 4 charged with a "hunebed" azure.
This is the coat of arms of Ahaus (Germany) with reversed colors; a "hunebed" is a giant's grave, as found in Drenthe.

Once upon a time Nagele was a beautiful city. Then a brawl happened in a small pub. A priest went there to soothe the hotheads, who were threatening each other with flashing knives. One of them struck the priest, who, before he died, prophesied: "Nagele will be swallowed by the waves! Fishers will later see their nets torn by stones!"
And so it happened, 700 years ago. It became known as the graveyard of Nagele, and many a fisher lost his nets.

In 1942 the Noordoostpolder was made dry land, and the beautiful village of Nagele is now on the site where the former glorious city was. The Society for Village Interests (Dorpsbelang) Nagele has made a study of the past of Nagele.
Before 1204 Johan I, Lord of Ahaus received the lease of the island of Nagele from the Bishop of Utrecht. Nagele was between the islands of Urk and Schokland, which was swallowed by the waves c. 1