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Oudega (The Netherlands)

Wymbritseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 1999; design R.J. Broersma

Âldegea village (Oudega)
Âldegea CoA

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Âldegea village (Oudega)

Oudega (Frisian: Âldegea) is a village in Wymbritseradiel, Fryslân province - not to be confused with Oudega in Smallingerland, or Âldegea (Oudega) in Gaasterlân-Sleat.
Flag adopted 1999; design R.J. Broersma

Flag: three stripe green, yellow, blue, proportioned 3:1:1; the yellow and blue stripe are connected by a wave; in the canton a square of 1/2 flagheight; the square gironny of yellow and red.

Arms: per fess: a: vert a canton gironny of or and gules; the canton with a cow's head caboshed argent; or an enhanced wavy base azure, charged with five fishes statant argent, the second and fourth are lower than the others.

Flag and arms have been designed at the request of the society for village interests. The designs are based on ideas from society members. At the same time it has been tried to connect them with flags and arms of the neighbouring villages of Heech and De Gaastmar.
The arms represent cattlebreeding, fishing and the ecological situation.: water (blue), and meadows (green). The golden stripe
represents the dikes, such as the Skat