Groningen polderboards (The Netherlands)

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Last modified: 2005-01-15 by jarig bakker
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Duurswold polderboard

Official name: Waterschap Duurswold; seat: Slochteren, Groningen province.
Flag: three horizontal stripes of blue, white and black, proportioned 3:2:1; at the hoist a vertical yellow stripe of 1/3 flagheight.
On the exhibition "Wapens en Vlaggen langs Fivel en Eems" (coats of arms and flag along the rivers Fivel and Eems), Appingedam, 1979, one could admire the beautiful begging boxes of the polderboard Duurswold. They show the arms: "Per fess, top azure, bottom silver, with a base sable, from which is issued a cornplant, above the dividing line gold, below it green".
It is unknown where it originates, but it probably belonged to one of the old "zijlvesten" (= polderboards) which merged in 1870 to form the present waterschap.
This arms and the arms of the family Fraylema in reversed colors form in a divided shield the polderboard arms from 1959.
The right part of the shield is the base for the flag., while the cornplant has been changed into the yellow vertical stripe.
The Board of directors added the arms in the hoist-top.
Source Vexilla Nostra #122, Sep-Oct 1982. text: J.A. de Boo.
Jarig Bakker, 2 Dec 2003

If I recall correctly the polderboard accepted my design graciously - but failed to use it.
J.A. de Boo, 18 May 2004

Eemszijlvest polderboard

Official name: Waterschap Eemszijlvest; seat: Appingedam, Groningen province.
Flag adopted: 31 Oct 1986; design: unknown.
Flagdescription: A white hoist with in top a red crowned harpy, and in bottom a red Roman church with four spires, and a fly of seven wavy stripes of green and white.
Eemszijlvest was formed on 1 Jan 1986 by the merger of the polderboards of Fivelingo, Duurswold and Oldambt. On 1 Jan 2000 it became part of the Noorderzijlvest.
Source: Vexilla Nostra, #236, 2003, text: Marcel van Westerhoven.
Jarig Bakker, 17 May 2004

Noorderzijlvest polderboard

Official name: Waterschap Noorderzijlvest; seat: Groningen.
Flag adopted: 5 Apr 2000; design: Consulentschap voor de Hera