Gelderland polderboards (The Netherlands)

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Last modified: 2004-05-22 by jarig bakker
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• Groot Maas en Waal polderboard
• De Linge polderboard
• Noord-Veluwe polderboard
• Oude IJssel polderboard

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• Gelderland
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• Dutch Polderboards

Groot Maas en Waal polderboard

Official name: Het Polderdistrict Groot Maas en Waal; seat: Arnhem, Gelderland province.
Flag adopted: 2 Feb 1987; design: Kl. Sierksma
Description: Five stripes of black and white, proportioned 7:3:4:3:7; over all at the separation of hoist and fly a "Gelderse Roos" (Gelre Rose) in green contours of 17/24 flagheight; on top and bottom covered by a border of 1/8 flagheight quartered blue and yellow, and by the central stripe broken at hoist and fly.
The colors of the flag are derived from the arms of this polderboard. In the flag black is for the polder-country, white for the rivers Maas and Waal; the border of yellow and blue represents the emblem of the Union of Polderboards (Circul van Ooij en Millingen, Rijk van Nijmegen, Maas en Waal and Bommelerwaard). Over all the Gelderse Roos as symbol for the geographical position of the Polderdistrict Groot Maas en Waal.
Source: Vexilla Nostra #155, Mar/Apr 1988.
Jarig Bakker, 17 May 2004

De Linge polderboard

Dutch name: "Waterschap De Linge", seat: Gel