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![[Annen villageflag]](../images/n/nl-dr_an.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2004
Annen village, municipality of Aa en Hunze, Drenthe province, formerly in Anloo municipality.
"In Spring 2001 I was asked by the committee for village-interests Annen (Commissie Dorpsbelangen Annen) to design a village-flag. Three designs were proposed, from which the local population chose this one during the Sports and Games week.
The colors green and yellow symbolize respectively the Hunzedowns (peat and cattlebreeding) and the "Hondsrug" hills (sand and agriculture), originally the main sources of income.
The origin of the owl is not clear. A regional rhyme mentions:
"Eexter Ossen (oxes), Anner Oelen (owls) en Gieter
Heren (lords)
willen het gehele land regeren (want to reign the whole country."
It is generally assumed that "oelen" are owls, but it might
be (night-) butterflies as well. Hence the owl-silhouette in the form of
a stylized capital *A* might be interpreted as a butterfly.
The design was made after consultation of the Drenthe Archives."
Albert Rademaker (a graphic designer at a commercial firm in
Annen; he co-operated with Redmer Alma of the Drents Archief / Drents Heraldisch
College. The flag was designed and adopted in 2001)
Additional info by Rademaker: "White and black were used purely for
design-purposes. The owl is split in two parts, so that it looks like two
birds, confronting each other - that confrontation may have positive or
negative black/white effects".
In "Groot Schimpnamenboek van Nederland", 1998, Dirk van der
Heide writes:
"Anner Oelen" is a nickname for misfits, people who try and always
fail. An "Oele" is also used for skinny persons, especially girls. Annenaars
were also nicknamed "Mooshappers" (moss-eaters).
They are said to be responsible for digging too many ditches in the
greenlands in the village of Eext:
"Anner Oelen haolt botter oet de koelen
Haolt brood oet Eexter sloot
Daor wordt d' Anner Oelen van groot."
(Anner Oelen get butter out of potholes - Get bread out of Eexter ditch
- That's how Anner Oelen get rich.)
In Dutch an "uiltje" is indeed a butterfly, in English an owlmoth,
a soft-haired butterfly with an owl-like head, hence the Dutch phrase:
"Een uiltje knappen" (to catch an owlmoth = to take a little nap
in daytime) - the "uiltje" is a night-animal, so this black-white
contrast may simply be the day-nap vs. the night-animal.
The image furthermore looks like an old Greek helmet, as worne by the
Greek goddess Pallas Athene. She was the Goddess of wisdom, and her symbol
was the owl.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2004
Best flag I saw in years!
Hans van Heijningen, 23 Nov 2004
![[Annerveenschekanaal flag]](../images/n/nl-dr_av.gif)
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Gerard van der Vaart sent the villageflag of Annerveenschekanaal, in
the municipality of Aa en Hunze, Drenthe province, on the Groninger border.
Description: swallowtailed blue over green; in the center a countercharged
disk, charged with several black lines; in top fly
several "v"s.
Mr Gerrit Meijers, of the Society for Village Interests specified:
Green pms = 360/361 Blue pms= 2975.
Blue: tranquility
Green: rural
Birds: freedom
Central horizontal axis represents the Grevelingkanaal.
Top right to swallowtail-center represents the filled up Molenwijk;
from bottom right to swallowtail-center the Kieldiep.
This converges in the Grevelingkanaal at the head of the Annerveenschekanaal.
The circle: the connections between the inhabitants, in the circle
is written Avk (initials of the village).
The Grevelingkanaal cuts Avk in two.
Flag inaugurated 12 Mar 2005; design: Annefien van Eck.
Source: the village
website.
Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2005.
by Gerard van der Vaart, 19 January 2002
The village of Eext is just outside the mighty metropole of Gieten,
in the municipality of Aa en Hunze, Drenthe province, the Netherlands,
and they expect to become rich by selling their "Ossevlag" - Oxen-flag,
as can be seen on <http://www.eextinfo.nl/Vlag/main.htm>.
Description: five horizontal stripes RVRVR, with a red vertical stripe
at the hoist, length = glaglentgh. Over all seven watching yellow ox-heads,
3 on the red hoist stripe, and the others on the red horizontal stripes,
placed 2-1-2 (or something like that...)
Adopted 29 Jul 1999.
Jarig Bakker and Gerard van der Vaart, 19 January 2002
![[Gasteren villageflag]](../images/n/nl-dr_ga.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 21 May 2004
Gasteren village, municipality of Aa en Hunze, Drenthe province.
Flag adopted 1 Jan 1998; design: Drents Heraldisch College in Assen.
Flagdescription: Yellow with a green bent hoist triangle reaching the
fly, charged with a yellow butter-churn.
This flag was designed for the celebration of Wapse's 700 years of
existence. Until 1 Jan 1998 Gasteren was part of the former municipality
of Anloo, which on that date merged into the new municipality
of Aa en Hunze. The main division of the Gasteren flag is based on the
arms of Anloo and symbolizes the fact that Gasteren belonged to the Reformed
parish (parochie), the bailiffship (schultambt), the Roman
Catholic parish (kerspel) and the municipality of Anloo.
Yellow refers to the name "Gasteren" which is supposed to be
derived from "geestgrond" - (heavy) sandy soil, which is the main
soil found in this area. Yellow also symbolizes the Gasterse dunes, the
former dairy-factory, and the nickname of the villagers: "botterkrammers",
butter-pedlars.
Green refers to the agricultural character; the butter-churn refers
to the villagers' nickname.
No coat of arms adopted (yet).
Source: Vexilla Nostra, #236, 2003
Jarig Bakker, 21 May 2004