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Zeist (The Netherlands)

Utrecht province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 24 May 1971.

Zeist municipality
Municipal standard
Old Zeist flag
Zeist 1938 flag
Zeist CoA
Austerlitz village

See also:

Zeist municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 59.653; area: 48,65 km². Settlements: Zeist (seat), Austerlitz, Bosch en Duin, Den Dolder, Huis ter Heide. It is a suburb of Utrecht city. The Slot (Castle) of Zeist was the residence of Louis XIV of France in
1672. The castle was rebuilt in 1686. It was bought in 1745 by the Hernhutters or Moravian Brethren, who made this the center of their missionary activities in the Netherlands and the former Dutch colonies.
On 24 May 1971 a new flag was adopted: two stripes of black and white, proportoned 1:3; the dividing line embattled with two whote and two half embattlements. Flagproportions 2:3.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003

Municipal standard

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 24 May 1971.

At the same time a municipal standard was taken into use, with the same description, but with overall proportions 1:1.
source: Derkwillem Visser's Gemeentevlaggen en wapens Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003

Old Zeist flag

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Until 1938 a colorful horizontal two-striped black over white flag was unofficially in use.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003

Zeist 1938 flag

by Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003

A new flag was adopted 22 Jul 1938, probably on the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 40 years reigning jubilee.
Description: two equally wide horizontal stripes of black and white with in the canton the municipal arms, fimbriated white.
The colors are derived from the municipal arms.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek 1962. [sie62]
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2003

Zeist CoA

from Ralf Hartemink's site.

The Coat of Arm