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Numansdorp (The Netherlands)

Cromstrijen municipality, Zuid Holland

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[Numansdorp flag] by Jarig Bakker, 20 Apr 2005
adopted 19 Feb 1970 See also:

Numansdorp former municipality

Numansdorp is a former municipality in Zuid-Holland province; in 1984 it merged into the new municipality of Cromstrijen. It is near the Hollandsch Diep in the southeast of the province, opposite Willemstad (Noord-Brabant).
Flag: white-blue-white, three times wavy, proportioned 7:6:7; along the hoist three saltires in a vertical row countercharged.
Adopted 19 Feb 1970 by municipal resolution.

Numansdorp is in the Hoeksche Waard; Numansdorp was its seat, and other villages were Hoogezand, Middelsluis, Oude Sluis (part) and Schuring.
The Manor "Cromstrijen" is a large mechanized farming enterprise (1600 hectares).
Gerrit Numan received in 1492 the muddy flats east of the Striene river and south of the Maas in long lease from Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk, whom he served as a secretary.
Numansdorp is also known as Buitensluis (outside the lock).

Source: Derkwillem Visser's "Gemeentevlaggen en Wapens Koninkrijk der Nederlanden", 2001.
Van Goor's Aardrijkskundig Woordenboek van Nederland, 1968.
Jarig Bakker, 20 Apr 2005

I guess that Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk is internationally known as Maximilian of Austria (1459-1519), Archiduke of Austria, German Emperor (1508-1519) of the Hapsburg dynasty. In 1477, he married Mary of Burgundy, da