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Baarn (The Netherlands)

Utrecht province

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Adopted 27 Jan 1999; design: H. van Heyningen.

Baarn municipality
Baarn old flag (c. 1939)
Baarn CoA

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Baarn municipality

Number of inhabitants: 24.469 (1 Jan 2002); area: 3.303 ha. Baarn is a municipality in Utrecht province.
Flag: three vertical stripes blue-yellow-blue, the yellow stripe charged in the center with a blue cross of 2/5 flagheight, and with arms of 1/10 flagheight.
Adopted 27 Jan 1999 by municipal resolution; design: Drs. H. van Heyningen.

The colors are derived from the municipal arms, which shows in blue a yellow bishop. The bishop, in standing position, has been "translated" into a vertical yellow stripe. The crozier was difficult to adopt on the flag, so the bishop was again "translated" as a blue cross. A priest blesses with one sign of the cross, a bishop with three. A priest is not allowed to wear a breast-cross on his habit, a bishop is, so the cross symbolizes the bishop.
Source: DerkWillem Visser: Gemeentevlaggen en wapens Koninkrijk der Nederlanden", 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 25 May 2005

Baarn old flag (c. 1939)

by Jarig Bakker, 25 May 2005

According to "Wie, Wat, Waar? 1940", an annual published by the Rotterdamsch N