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Boazum (The Netherlands)

Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 11 Sep 2003
adopted 1999; Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma..

Boazum village (Bozum)
Boazum CoA

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Boazum village (Bozum)

Boazum (Dutch: Bozum) is a village in Littenseradiel; it used to be in the former municipality of Baarderadeel, with (1958) 557; (1974) 444 inhabitants. A silver chalice has been left from c. 1500 AD, with the inscription: "Dit is Bosum ram" - (This is the ram of Boazum). However this was not clear-cut. Some said that *ram* had to do with the measures in Boazum, which were far more generous than in the surroundings (ram. for "raming" = estimate.
Nickname: "kattekneppelers" put cat in barrel, throw heavy clubs against the barrel, until the barrel bursts and the cat escapes, throw club at cat and kill the cat, and here you are: the catking!
and: "skriezen" (gruttos - blacktailed godwits) - symbolizing the meadows and the meadow-birds, making a helluvalotofnoise)
Boazum CoA: in blue a turned silver ram, standing on a green meadow.
Flag: yellow with a blue lozenge reaching the rims of the flag; and on blue a white standing ram; the yellow fields divided diagonally towards the hoist, of which the to field is at 3/4 flaglength till 1/4 flaglenth; at the flagtop and -bottom at the hoist a green triangle.
The arms of Boazum is described in the Genealogysk Fierboekje of 1991, p. 185. We d