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Gorinchem (The Netherlands)

Zuid-Holland province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 9 Aug 1938

Gorinchem municipality
Gorinchem 1938 flag
Gorinchem 19th century flag
Gorinchem CoA

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Gorinchem municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 34.370; area: 22,01 km². Settlements: Gorinchem (seat), Dalem.
Gorinchem or Gorkum is an old city on the Merwede river. Gorkum was founded in the beginning of the 13th century by Jan van Arkel. Here 21 Roman Catholic priests were taken prisoner on 7 July 1572. 19 of them were taken to Brielle by the "Watergeuzen", where they were tortured and hung, despite the order by Willem van Oranje to free them.

Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62] has this about the flag:
"Description: Nine equally wide horizontal stripes of white and red; the middle strip is twice as wide as the other stripes.
This flag was instituted by Mayor and Aldermen on 9 Aug 1939. The colors are derived from the arms of the Van Arkels (which is on a small shield on the municipal arms).
This flag is closely related to an image in Steenbergen (c. 1870) [stb65]. That has on the middle stripe the arms of the municipality. A flag of that model has been reported by the Gorinchem mayor to the minister of Internal Affairs in 1857."

Jaume Ollé has sent a lot of Steenbergen i