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Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
adopted 16 August 1971
Granted 16 Jul 1817
Description: blue, with in the direction of hoist-bottom to fly-top
three yellow hearts, each of 1/3 flagheight; in hoist-top a yellow double-tailed
lion armed red.
This flag was in principle adopted by mayor and aldermen in April 1962.
Flag-color and hearts are derived from the municipal arms, and the
placement of the hearts reminds of the wayu the river Dommel has taken
in this municipality. The lion of Gelderland has been added to symbolize
the ancient situation as a lordship of Gelre or Gelderland.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962.
Jarig Bakker, 13 Apr 2004
Mr Sierksma added: according to resolution of Mayor and Aldermen of
27 April 1962 (official municipal resolution until 16 August 1971) the
lion should be "voided" (contoured).
Source: Vexilla Nostra # 226, 2000.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2005
The High Council of Nobility (HCN) wrote 19 March 1964 a letter to Mayor & Aldermen (B&W) of Geldrop, in reply to a letter dated 1 May 1963, in which it stated that the lion was not acceptable, because the lion did not figure in the municipal arms; the Duke of Gelre (whose lion it was) had practically no influence in Geldrop, except from some rights to the castle and the parish chrurch. The HCN therefore advised a square (or rectangular) blue flag charged with three yellow "meerbladen" (heart-formed waterlily-leaves) placed 2,1, as on the municipal arms.
On 11 Jun 1971 the municipal council wrote the HCN in which it proposed a blue/yellow flag. The HCN replied on 7 Jul 1971 that this was not acceptable, because the municipalities of Ootmarsum (Overijssel), Midwoud (Noord-Holland) and Uden (Noord-Brabant) did use a flag like that already. It advised the flag with 7 stripes, which became the Geldrop flag from 16 Aug 1971 - 31 Dec 2003.
The flag, designed by Sierksma in April 1962, does not seem to have
been adopted in May 1963, and not in 1971, judging from the correspondence
cited. The image in Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 was
just a design, not officially adopted. The matter was not raised when a
new municipal flag was discussed for Geldrop-Mierlo. The "voided" lion
is a mystery to me.
Willem van Ham, 20 Sep 2005