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Bontebok (The Netherlands)

Heerenveen municipality, Fryslân province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted: 1997; design: J.C. Terluin.

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Bontebok village

Bontebok (meaning: spotted billygoat) was a hamlet of the village of Nieuwehorne along the Schoterlandse Compagnonsvaart (another canal to transport peat), named after a former pub. There was a lock here, and a dairy factory.
CoA: in blue a (black-white) billygoat, standing on a green meadow.
Flag: divided in four over 1/3 of flaglength of yellow and red; over the dividing lines a blue cross with a width of 1/10 flagheight. In the canton a standing (black-white) multicolored billygoat and at hoistbottom a peat-spade and an "oplizzer" (another peat-implement), in saltire, with the handles on top, all yellow.
Bontebok was originally a pub with the name "Bonte Bock", at the place where the footpath from Nijhorne to Gersloot and the Compagnonsvaart. There was also a lock to regulate the waterlevel. Around the pub and that crossing a hamlet developed with the name of the pub: Bontebok. In 1979 the hamlet received the village-status.
The village did already have a CoA, derived from the advertisinbg sign of the pub. In 1997 the society for village interests started to develop a plan for a villageflag.
The flag is dividided in four parts, a so-called Scandinavian cross. In the canton is the multicolored billygoat from the arms; the yellow color of t