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Zuid-Beijerland (The Netherlands)
Korendijk municipality, Zuid-Holland province
Last modified: 2003-12-20 by jarig bakker
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by Jarig Bakker, 17 Dec 2003
adopted 1 May 1973
See also:
Zuid-Beijerland [former municipality]
For the former municipality of Zuid-Beijerland, since 1984 part of Korendijk,
Zuid-Holland province, Shipmate shows an old flag blue over white.
However the CoA, granted 24 Jul 1816, consists of BY lozenges...
Another flag was adopted 1 May 1973.
Description: the whole consists of yellow and blue lozenges (each with
resp. two angles of 50o and 130o), in such a way
that the flag has 21 lozenges, partly cut off by the flagborders, and the
tophoist (part)lozenge is yellow.
Adopted 1 May 1973 by municipal resolution.
Source: Derkwillem Visser's "Gemeentewapens en vlaggen Koninkrijk der
Nederlanden", Jun 2001.
The flag is a Banner of Arms, and the arms is said to have been granted
by Lamoraal, Count of Egmond in 1557 after the Beijerland area was surrounded
by a dike, the lozenges being from the arms of his wife, Sabina van Beieren.
Zuid-Beijerland had (1968) 2.700 inhabitants with the settlements Zuid-Beijerland
(seat), Bommelskous, Hitsertse Kaai, Niwuendijk (part), Schenkeldijk, Tiengemeten
island (part), Zuidzijde, and Zwartsluisje.
Jarig Bakker, 17 Dec 2003
I guess Beieren is Bavaria, and that Egmond's wife also gave name to
the Beijerland area.
Note that this fl