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Sint Annaparochie (Netherlands)

Het Bildt municipality, Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 18 Aug 2003
adopted c. 2000

Sint Annaparochie village
Sint Annaparochie CoA

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Sint Annaparochie village

St. Annaparochie, or Sintanne, seat of the municipality of Het Bildt, Fryslân province.
CoA: divided I. silver with four red fesses; II. gold with a pot and a pan both black; a blue canton with a golden six-pointed star.
Flag: nine equally wide horizontal stripes of white and red; a yellow hoist-triangle lengthened with 2/9 flaglength and the point at 1/2 flaglength; the triangle charged with a black pot, a blue six-pointed star and a black pan, the first in the canton, the second in the point and the third in the hoist-bottom.
The CoAs of the villages Sint Jacobiparochie, Vrouwenparochie, Oude Bildtzijl were designed, together with the arms of St. Annaparochie, in 1949 based on a nursery rime: "In pot en in panne is it wapen fan Sint An", (a pot and a pan is the arms of St. Anne). Because the rimes were no credible source they should not be taken as serious. The arms were never granted officially. The rimes did not say anything about the placement of the elements.
After the hamlet Westhoek was granted the status of village the inhabitants asked the Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk for a CoA and a flag in 1999, the FRfH asked the other villages if CoAs were in use.
It was