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Weidum (The Netherlands)

Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 7 Sep 2003
adopted 1999; Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma.

Weidum village
Weidum CoA

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Weidum village

Weidum, village in Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân province. It used to be in the former municipality of Baarderadeel, with
(1958): 552; (1974): 753 inhabitants. Until c. 1900 it was the municipal seat of Baarderadeel. Here was Dekemastate (fortified stately house), the home of Earl (jonker) E. D. van Beyma, demolished by a tornado in 1898, which ended a 700-year history of glorious and gory deeds. In 1919 Hanso Henricus Schotanus a` Steringa Idzerda invented radio-broadcasting in Weidum. Weidum is also known for the game of "keatsen", French: Jeu de Pelote, while the village is renowned for its brassband (fanfare), its "boerenkapel" (farmers' humpapaorchestra) and its drumband.
Nickname: Weidumer roeken (religious fanatics)
Weidum CoA: divided stepwise: a. in blue a golden six-pointed star; b. in red two silver fleurs-de-lis; in base with a silver lozenge.
Flag: blue with a four-stepped red hoist-triangle, of which the fourth step forms the triangle-top at 7/15 flaglength; the triangle charged with a yellow six-pointed star of 2/5 flagheight; a yellow lengthened stepped chevron with a width of 4/15 flaglength with the top at 11/15 flaglength.
From the 18th till the 20th century the "griete