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Heumen (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 29 Oct 1981

Heumen municipality
Heumen CoA
Overasselt

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Heumen municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 16.609; area: 41,50 km². Settlements: Malden (seat), Blankenberg, De Schatkuil, Ewijk, Heide, Heumen, Molenhoek (part), Nederasselt, Overasselt, Schoonenburg, Sleeburg, Valenberg, Vogelenzang, Vosseneind, Worsum.
Heumen lies just south of Nijmegen on the Waal river. It is a rural municipality. In 1980 The municipality of Overasselt merged with Heumen.
The checky part of the flag is derived from the CoA.
Jarig Bakker, 1 October 1999

Heumen old flag

by Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2003
Adopted 13 Mar 1963

Heumen is a municipality in Gelderland province, formed in 1980 by the merger of the former municipalities of Heumen and Overasselt; seat: Malden (made famous by Monty Python).
The old municipal flag was: chequy of five rows of six blocks of yellow and blue, with a hoist chequy of 2x5 half-blocks of black and white.
The colors were derived from the old municipal arms, whereby the ermines in the canton were transformed to half-blocks.
Adopted 13 Mar 1963 by municipal resolution.
Source: Vexilla Nostra no. 95 (