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Britswert (The Netherlands)

Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 10 Sep 2003
adopted 1999; Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma..

Britswert village (Britswerd)
Britswert CoA

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Britswert village (Britswerd)

Britswert (Dutch: britswerd) is a village in Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân; it used to be in the former municipality of Baarderadeel, with (1958) 154; (1974) 111 inhabitants. Virtually one village with Wiuwert. In the hamlet Kromwâl is a 350 years old shipyard, now specialized in yachts. In Kromwâl was also a "vermaning" - underground church - of the "menisten" (Baptists), which moved to Itens in 1863.
Nickname: "wetterpuollen" (water-puddles).
Britswert CoA: divided: I. red with in chief a golden anchor; II. blue with in chief a golden fleur-de-lis; in base a golden "terp" issuing from base, below it arched opened of the field and in this over all a golden clover.
Flag: two horizontal equally wide stripes of red and blue with over all a lying yellow anchor of which the shaft starts at 1/3 flaglength and the point at 13/15 flaglength, with a width of 1/10 flagheight, and issuing from the anchorshaft over the imaginary lines of a hoist-triangle with the top at 1/3 flaglength, in red a yellow clover and in blue a lily.
The CoA is divided in red and blue: red for the land and the shippin