Apeldoorn (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

Last modified: 2005-06-25 by jarig bakker
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Adopted 30 Jun 1966; design: unknown.

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• Apeldoorn CoA
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Municipal flag

Apeldoorn is a municipality in Gelderland province, with its seat in the village of Apeldoorn, the second largest village in the Netherlands after 's-Gravenhage.
Flag: A vertical white hoist charged with the municipal arms, and two horizontal stripes of equal width of red and yellow.
Adopted 30 Jun 1966 by municipal resolution; design: unknown.

The arms is from the van Apeldoorn or Appelthorn family, extinct in the 18th century, which had a few possessions in the area. Note that the arms on flag and CoA are different: on the flag the eagle is armed azure, while on the CoA it has red feet with blue nails.
Jarig Bakker, 25 May 2005

Apeldoorn old flag (c. 1939)

According to "Wie, Wat, Waar? 1940", an annual published by the Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad in Nov. 1939, the flag of Apeldoorn was: horizontal yellow - red.
Jarig Bakker, 25 May 2005

Apeldoorn CoA

Arms: or an eagle gules with spread wings, beaked and nailed azure, with on its breast a key argent.
The arms is from the van Apeldoorn or Appelthorn family, extinct in the 18th century, which had a few possessions in the area. Note that the arms on flag and CoA are different: on the flag the eagle is armed azure, while on the CoA it has red feet with blue nails.
Jarig Bakker, 25 May 2005

Hoenderloo Village

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