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Eersel (The Netherlands)

Noord-Brabant province

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Eersel municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 28 Jun 1988

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Eersel municipality

Population (1 Jan 2003): 18.400; area: 84,36 km². Settlements: Eersel (seat), Duizel, Knegsel, Steensel, Vessem, Wintelre.
The municipality of Eersel is a merger of the former municipalities of Eersel and Vessem, Wintelre en Knegsel on 1 Jan 1997, and uses the same flag as the old municipality of Eersel.
The flag corresponds to the escutcheon on the municipal arms, with the lion shifted to the hoist.

Eersel CoA

Eersel CoA image from the Eersel municipal website.

Granted 22 Aug 1988

Eersel old CoA

See International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/

Vessem, Wintelre en Knegsel [former municipality]

former Vessel, Wintelre en Knegsel Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm

In 1935 (750 years of existence of Den Bosch) all municipalities of Noord-Brabant received a banner consisting of the red-white blocks of the provincial flag, with in the canton the municipal arms. The person on the canton is St. Lambertus, patron saint of the church of Vessem.

Vessem, Wintelre en Knegsel CoA

See International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/