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Minnertsga (Netherlands)

Het Bildt municipality, Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 24 Feb 2004
adopted 2003; design: R. J. Broersma

Minnertsga village (Minnertsgea)
Minnertsga CoA

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Minnertsga village (Minnertsgea)

Minnertsga (Frisian: Minnertsgea) is a village in the municipality of Het Bildt, Fryslân province. It used to belong to the old territory of Fryslân before the enclosure of the Middelsé; till 1984 Minnertsga belonged to the former municipality of Barradeel, with c. 2.000 inhabitants. The village prides itself because of its monumental saddle-roofed church, which in the 16th century had a high spire on top of the churchtower; unfortunately that was lost c. 1550; in 1947 the church was destroyed by fire, but it was restored in its former glory in 1951.
It is said: "Dy fan Minnertsgea sealje ier en ride let" (Those of Minnertsga saddle early and ride late - it takes them a while
to do something). Nicknames: "keallebouten" (calf-bones), "rapekoppen" (turnip-heads)

CoA: divided: I. in blue a golden corn-sheaf; II. in blue a silver sea-horn placed per pale, pointing downwards, containing three golden corn-ears; in chief a double black eagle with red beak and tongue; in blue a golden triangle charged with a green clover.

Flag: five horizontal striped of blue, yellow, green, white and blue, poportioned 1:1:2:1:1; a red hoidt-triangle with the point at
flag-center; the triangle charged with a yellow corn-sheaf.

The base of the Co