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Bennebroek (The Netherlands)
Noord-Holland province
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Bennebroek municipality
Bennebroek is the smallest municipality in Noordholland, with (1 Jan 2003)
5.328 inhabitants on 1,75 km².
It was first mentioned in the 14th century, when it was marshland.
It became a separate municipality in 1653, when it got a CoA with a peacock,
after the name of the lord, Adriaan Pauw jr (pauw = peacock).
Bennebroek became very useful for Amsterdam: ships carried the Amsterdam
clothes ("klerenbennen" = baskets with clothes) via the Leidschevaart,
and they were bleached in the dunes of Bennebroek. This was discontinued
in the end of the 18th century. The tavern "De Geleerde Man" (the
Learned Man, depicted as an old men with a ladder ("leer") on his
shoulder) was established in 1682, and it was used to resolve conflicts
between Amsterdam (the Dutch economic center) and The Hague (the bureaucratic
center), as it was halfway between both cities, something like a Dutch
Île des Phaisans.
Jarig Bakker, 09 July 2001
Bennebroek CoA
International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/
The present CoA (see <http://www.ngw.nl/b/bennebro.htm>)
dates from 1816, but was in disuse in 1968. Since then it has been readopted,
and the new flag (adopted 13 Apr 1972) was inspired by it.
Jarig Bakker, 09 July 2001