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Heythuysen (The Netherlands)

Limburg province

Last modified: 2005-05-13 by jarig bakker
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Heythuysen municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 25 Feb 1992

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Heythuysen municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 12.126; area: 58,40 km². Settlements: Heythuysen (seat), Baexem, Grathem, Kelpen-Oler.
On 1 Jan 1991 the former municipalities of Baexem, Grathem and Heythuysen merged to form the new municipality of Heythuysen.
The flag, adopted 25 Feb 1992 symbolizes all three former municipalities. The abbott's staff is the symbol of the Princess of Thorn, the Abbess of a monastery, to which Baexem and Grathem belonged. The hunting-horn is the symbol of the County of Horn, to which Heythuysen belonged.

Heythuysen old flag

[Heythuysen old flag] by Jarig Bakker, 20 Apr 2005
adopted 8 Nov 1976

Heythuysen is a former municipality in Limburg province, northwest of Roermond on the other bank of the Maas. In 1991 it merged into the new municipality with the same name.
Flag: blue, with in top hoist a yellow square canton charged with three red horns, placed 2,1; in a fly-diagonal line three yellow roses on b