Derkwillem Visser jr. - VDCN.
adopted on 13 July 1999
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Derkwillem Visser jr. - VDCN.
adopted on 13 July 1999
The merger took place on 1 Jan 1998, and the new flag was adopted on
13 July 1999.
Franc Van Diest, 24 February 2001.
![[Coevorden CoA]](../images/n/nl-dr)cv.jpg)
image from the Coevorden municipal website.
Granted 18 Aug 2000. The scroll reads (in Latin): Multis Periculis Supersum
- Despite the many dangers which threatened me I still exist.
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Adopted 2 Sep 1968
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Adopted 28 Aug 1973
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Sleen is now part of Coevorden in Drenthe, Netherlands.
The municipality of Sleen instituted a municipal flag by a resolution
of the municipal council of 25 June 1962. Description:
The flag is composed of five horizontal stripes of equal width, alternating
white and blue. To the hoist flanked by two vertical rows of five square
blocks, alternating white and blue too. The first block on the top has
a red five-pointed star, derived from the flag of Drente. In that flag
there are six stars, one for each 'dingspel' (old name for a municipality).
Sleen was the capital of the first dingspil "Het Zuidenveld".
Jarig Bakker, 2 August 1999.
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
The municipal flag was designed by J. F. van Heijningen in Utrecht.
Granted by decree of the High Council of Nobility on 26 July 1988 #88/242-28.
The flag has been adopted as official municipal flag on 14 November 1988.
Description:
Three horizontal stripes green-yellow-green related 1:4:1 with on the
yellow stripe at 1/3 flaglenth two black concentric circles, each wide
about 7/200 of the total height of the flag; the rings with external diameters
of respectively 80/200 and 52/200 of the height of the flag and on it a
red, double cross of snakeheads with arms, of which the width is equal
to 9/100 of the flagheight and a total height, which is equal to 3/5 flagheight.
Explanation:
The yellow stripe with rings and cross mirror exactly the municipal
arms. The COA has been shifted a little to the hoist. They symbolize the
word 'LOO', meaning 'WOOD'. Zweeloo is situated in a beautiful wooded region.
To maintain the balance in the flag a green stripe has been added to the
top and the bottom. In that way the location of Zweeloo in a wooded area
has been expressed. The flag has been officially unveiled on 20 May 1989
by the Mayor, Mr. J. Jonkers.
Additional info from Kl. Sierksma's 'De gemeentewapens van Nederland',
1968:
'The double ring reminds of the ringurnfield near the 'Galgenberg'
(Gallow mountain). The snakehead-cross is a symbol for the early settlement
of Christianity in this region, which was then still a very rough country.'
The CoA and flag can also be seen at Ralf Hartemink's BNG-site:
http://www.bng.nl/ngw/z/zweelo.htm
With the following (IMHO better) explanation of the snakeheadcross:
'The cross in the Coat of Arms symbolizes Christianity, which arrived here
quite early. A snakehead-cross was chosen to symbolize the marshy condition
of the soil.'
Still: this flag would be quite fitting for Nagaland!
Jarig Bakker, 2 August 1999.