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Heerlen (The Netherlands)

Limburg province

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Heerlen municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 7 Feb 1966

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Heerlen municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 93.989; area: 45,40 km². Settlements: Heerlen (seat), Hoensbroek.
Heerlen is in extreme southeast Limburg, formerly the main mining town, now a prosperous municipality with several national government institutions like the Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (General Pension Fund). It is the second town qua number of inhabitants in Limburg.

According to Sierksma [sie62] there was an unofficial horizontal RW flag, while there was an even more unofficial BY flag.
The Heerlen municipal council adopted the present flag on 7 Feb 1966. Description: A square cloth of blue with in the center a yellow Roman eagle, placed in proportions 2:1.

The blue color symbolizes trade and industry. The Roman eagle the development of Heerlen. It has a specific heraldic form. The image of the eagle, as well as its placement on the flag, make it imperative that the flag is square. The flag represents the municpality from the time it was founded in Roman times until the present. Heerlen is th