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Ferwerderadiel (The Netherlands)

Fryslân province

Last modified: 2005-06-25 by jarig bakker
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ferwerderadeel municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 30 Jun 1959

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Ferwerderadiel municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 8.953; area: 133,93 km². Settlements: Ferwert (seat), Bartlehiem (part), Blije, Burdaard, Ginnum, Hallum, Hegebeintum, Jannum, Jislum, Lichtaard, Marrum, Reitsum, Wânswert.
Ferwerderadiel/Ferwerderadeel is a municipality in North Friesland. the Netherlands. It is named after its seat, Ferwerd.
The flag was adopted 30 June 1959. Colors and stars are derived from the municipal CoA. The number of villages determined the number of elements in the municipal flag. (v. Sierksma, Nederlands vlaggenboek, 1962)
Jarig Bakker, 22 August 1999

Ferwerderadiel wimpel

Ferwerderadiel wimpel] by Jarig Bakker, 29 Jun 2005
in use 2005; design: own

André van de Loo bought some time ago the new wimpel (pennant) of Ferwerderadiel, Fryslân province. This was:
blue over yellow; at the hoist 14 chequy square of yellow and blue; the blue squares charged with a yellow 6-pointed star.

This was a wimpel based on the hoist of the municipal flag and the colors of the municipal flag and arms. The 7 stars represent the 7 villages in the municipality.
After a bit of research André discovered that there was already a different municipal wimpel, designed by the Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk (Frisian Council of Heraldry) in 1984: red over white; a square blue canton charged with four yellow 6-pointed
stars.

Red and white are the colors of the former division of Oostergo; the stars were from the flag and arms of Ferwerderadiel.
André contacted a member of the municipal council who happened to be his brother-in-law, in order to make the council aware of the old design. In his opinion the colors for the fly were not correct, as they were reserved for the Frisian cities by the FRfH. However his brother-in-law deposed his criticism in an "in"-basket, and a sleepy civil servant noted that the FRfH was adamantly complaining about the new wimpel.
This was reported in the two main Frisian newspapers, Leeuwarder Courant and Friesch Dagblad, without André being mentioned.
In the articles the municipality insisted on 7 stars, but was willing to discuss the colors of the fly