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Maasbracht (The Netherlands)

Limburg province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 1991

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Maasbracht municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 13.707; area: 26,00 km². Settlements: Maasbracht (seat), Bilt, Brandt, De Weerd, Eiland, Laak, Linne, Maasbracht-Beek, Ohé, Stevensweert
On 1 Jan 1991 the present municipality was formed by the merger of the former municipalities of Maasbracht, Ohé en Laak, Stevensweert, and Linne.
Maasbracht is a few km southwest of Roermond, on the eastbank of the Maas river. Here is one of the largest inland ports of the Netherlands with a complex of locks worth watching for hours.

The anchor on the flag symbolizes the river-function of the municipality. The three crosses on the anchor symbolize the three
municipalities added (I think)
Jarig Bakker, 9 December 1999

Maasbracht CoA

image from this webpage.

Granted 1991.

Maasbracht old flag

by Jarig Bakker, 7 Apr 2005
adopted 6 Sep 1966; design: Hoge Raad van Adel

Maasbracht old municipal flag
adopted 6 Sep 1966; design: Hoge Raad van Adel.
Description: Square, in red a white saltire, with four yellow crosses crosslet. The arms of c. 1/10 flagheight.
It is derived from the (heraldic) right part of the municipal arms, which shows the arms of the court of aldermen of Echt.
Source: Vexilla Nostra 18 (126), p. 43.
Jarig Bakker, 7 Apr 2005

The crosses should be blazoned "four yellow crosses crosslet".
I don't know if "cross" has a diminutive, if you're trying to use "crosslet" that way. (A field semée of crosses is also called "crusilly"...).
Lewis A. Nowitz, 7 Apr 2005

You're right. "Cross crosslet" means a cross with small crosses at the ends of each arm.
The flag shown is actually quite similar to the arms of a prominent English noble house from the time of the Wars of the Roses - Beauchamp (gules a fess or between six crosses crosslet of the second). Anne, heiress of the Beauchamps, was the wife of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (a.k.a. "The Kingmaker").
James Dignan, 7 Apr 2005

I checked it on Ralf Hartemink's site, wher