This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website
Oisterwijk (The Netherlands)
Noord-Brabant province
Last modified: 2003-05-31 by jarig bakker
Keywords: oisterwijk |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
See also:
Oisterwijk municipality
Oisterwijk is a merger of the former municipalities of Berkel-Enschot
(only the Heukelom part - rest went to Tilburg), Moergestel
and Oisterwijk (1 Jan 1997). Number of inhabitants
(1 Jan 2003): 25.326; area: 63,91 km². Settlements: Heukelom, Moergestel,
Oisterwijk (seat).
Flag adopted 25 Sep 1997 by municipal resolution, after the municipal
reshuffle of 1997; the flag was changed after the change of the CoA, but
remained essentially the same as the old Oisterwijk flag
(just the colors were changed).
Jarig Bakker, 23 May 2003
Oisterwijk CoA
image from the Oisterwijk municipal
website.
Granted 27 Mar 1987 (after the merger of Oisterwijk and Moergestel)
Berkel-Enschot (former municipality
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Moergestel (former municipality
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Adoption date unknown; Moergestel is part of Oisterwijk since 1987.
Oisterwijk [former municipality]
Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Adopted on 18 Jan 1963 by municipal resolution; the colors are derived
from the municipal CoA; the three vertical stripes symbolize the three
castle-towers in the CoA.
Souyrce: Sierksma: Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962.
Jarig Bakker, 23 May 2003
Oisterwijk old CoA
International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/
Granted 16 Jul 1817