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Baexem (The Netherlands)

Heythuysen municipality, Limburg province

Last modified: 2005-05-13 by jarig bakker
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[Baexem old flag] by Jarig Bakker, 20 Apr 2005
adopted 28 Aug 1986

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Baexem former municipality

Baexem is a former municipality in Limburg province, northwest of Roermond city on the opposite bank of the Maas. Since 1991 it is included in the new municipality of Heythuysen.
Flag: five wavy stripes proportioned 2:1:2:1:2 of green and white. Adopted 28 Aug 1986 by municipal resolution.

This is an adaptation of the arms, where wavy fesses argent on a field vert dominate. One wave may account for the brook Goorbeek, perhaps the other represents the Mexican wave when the RKFC Baexem United doesn't score a goal (it's a very wavy sporting event  :-)  - especially because the other teams have saints with more luck that St. John the Baptist.

Source: Derkwillem Visser's "Gemeentevlaggen en Wapens Koninkrijk der Nederlanden", 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Apr 2005