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adoption date: unknown. Design: Stichting Banistiek en Heraldiek.
Stadskanaal is a relatively new municipality in Groningen province in the Netherlands. During the municipal reorganization of 1969 the municipality of Onstwedde was renamed Stadskanaal, after the largest settlement. Onstwedde did not have a flag, but it did have a CoA, which became the CoA of the new municipality. The "Stichting Banistiek en Heraldiek" designed a new flag.
However Stadskanaal already had a local flag. Description: Diagonally
divided red and yellow, with a narrow blue dividing line; on the red part
a white jumping horse.
This was a semi-official local flag: Stadskanaal was part of two municipalities:
Ontstwedde and Wildervank. Two local societies (Commissie Verfraaiing
Stadskanaal, and Algemene Handelsvereniging) adopted a design
in May 1960. The red part symbolizes the hard work in the peat-industry
(which also occurs in the CoA of Wildervank);
the fertile cornfields (cornsheaves occur on the CoA of Onstwedde) have
been represented by the yellow field. The diagonal blue line points at
the system of canals characterizing the "Veenkoloniën" (peat-colonies),
especially Stadskanaal. The white Saxon horse symbolizes activity, power
and pride of the region, of which Stadskanaal is the center.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62]
Note: Stadskanaal is the name of the place, but also of the canal running
through the place, all the way to "Staad", which is Groningen
city.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2003