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Rijnwaarden (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 25 Oct 1990

Rijnwaarden municipality
Herwen en Aerdt former municipality

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Rijnwaarden municipality

Population (1 Jan 2003): 11.234; area: 44,86 km². Settlements: Lobith (seat), Aerdt, Herwen, Pannerden, Spijk, Tolkamer.
The municipality of Rijnwaarden was formed 1 Jan 1985 by the merger of the former municipalities of Pannerden and Herwen en Aerdt.
On the Rijnwaarden municipal webpage are CoA and Flag of Rijnwaarden (Gelderland), where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands. Text:
By royal resolution of 12 October 1988, #20, the municipality of Rijnwaarden was granted a CoA, which combines many features of the former municipalities.
Heraldic description: "Per pale; I in or an embattled tower in gules opened and illiminated in the field, and before the door-opening a barrier in argent; II per fess; in argent 3 tiles* in gules; b barry of 10 pieces of argent and azure, and covering all a lion in gules. The shield covered by a crown in or of 3 leaves and 2 pearls."
By municipal resolution of 25 October 1990, #429, the flag of Rijnwaarden was adopted, after it had been granted by the 'Hoge Raad van de Adel' by a letter dd. 28 August 1990.

Description of the flag: Three stripes YRW, over which a blue hoist triangle. Height and length relationship: 2:3. This flag was designed by the artist Tonny Ross, who lived and worked in Lobith. T