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Joure (The Netherlands)

Skarsterlân municipality, Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 20 Jun 2003

Joure/De Jouwer market town [vlek]
Joure CoA

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Joure/De Jouwer market town [vlek]

Joure / De Jouwer is the seat of Skarsterlân, Fryslân province:
CoA and flag have been described in the Genealogysk Jierboek van de Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk, 1991. The CoA on the flag is canting - hjouwer = oats.

CoA: azure a sheaf of corn with three acorns per pale, all or. The shield is surmonté by a crown of a market town or with three mulberry leaves and two pearls and on the rim three lozengy gems with in between two green oval gems; the crown is lined yellow.

Flag: three equally wide horizontal stripes red - white - blue with towards the hoist a shield with a height equal to 1/2 flagheight and half white and half black with over all three oars of oats with white stems in the bottom part and the plumes black, with five seed chalices, all in the white shield-top.

The CoA of Joure is quite old. It can be seen on top of the side-door of the Hervormde Kerk in Joure. It reads there: "De Vlek Joure 1644" (the date of when the church was built)"
Stefan Lambregts, 19 Jun 2003

This flag is also found on the Napolitan manuscript of 1667 [sie66] Joure is the founding place of the Douwe Egberts firm "in koffie en thee" and Sonnema Beerenburg.
Jarig Bakker,