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Broeksterwoude (The Netherlands)

Dantumadeel municipality, Fryslân province

Last modified: 2003-09-20 by jarig bakker
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[Broeksterwoude village flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 26 Oct 2002
adopted 14 Sep 2001; design: P. Bultsma.

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Broeksterwoude village (Broeksterwâld)

Broeksterwoude is a village in Dantumadiel, Fryslân, the Netherlands. At this webpage is a 'flying' flag and a flagphoto. There is a long explanation - just about the (not available) CoA.
Jarig Bakker, 18 Oct 2002

Broeksterwoude - Frisian name: Broeksterwâld - village in Dantumadeel, Fryslân, was a hamlet in the village of Akkerwoude, then named Broeke onder Akkerwoude - Ikkerwâldster-Broek. It became a separate village in 1964 with (1973) 1268 inhabitants. There is a stone reminding of the first baptism by a group of Mormons in the Netherlands (19th century).
Broeksterwâld: CoA: in gold an aldertree issueing from base with five leaves, two on each side , one on top; between the bottomleaves on both side a branch with two catkins and between the top leaves and on both sides of the top leaf a branch with three "elzeproppen" (=fruit of the alder-tree), all green; the tree in the shieldcorner with a blue chicoryflower; a wavy base of six charges of black, gold, blue, gold, black, and gold, of which the black fesses lay over the green stem and the others pass behind it.
Flag: three horizontal stripes yellow - green - yellow, proportioned 2:1:2; at