Roggel en Neer (The Netherlands)

Limburg province

Last modified: 2005-04-29 by jarig bakker
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Roggel en Neer municipality

Roggel en Neer CoA

Granted 15 Sep 1992.

Neer former municipality

Neer is a former municipality in Limburg province, since 1991 part of the new municipality of Roggel en Neer, a little east from Weert city.
Flag: three stripes per flydiagonal, proportioned 17:2:17 red - wavy yellow against red and red against yellow - yellow.
adopted 30 Aug 1982 by municipal resolution.
"Neer" means down
The Neerbeek flows through Neer from southwest to northeast - the direction shown on the flag.

Nickname: "Kuus" - pigs, held here, or people not caring overly for cleanliness.
"Kwibussen" - foolish or daft people.

Source: Derkwillem Visser's "Gemeentevlaggen en Wapens Koninkrijk der Nederlanden", 2001.
Groot Schimpnamenboek van Nederland, by Dirk van der Heide, 1998.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Apr 2005

Neer CoA

Arms: or a Gothic church with a Gothic rose window over the entrance, and with a central spire with three windows and two small side-spires, all gules joined noir, every spire surmounted by a cross gules; in an inescutcheon or three posthorns gules armed argent, placed two and one.

The inescutcheon is the arms of Horn (no posthorns, but hunting horns), because Neer is in the Land of Horn. Already in 1485 the Court of aldermen showed this arms.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Apr 2005

Roggel former municipality

Roggel is a former municipality in Limburg province, since 1991 part of the n