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Wanneperveen (Netherlands)

Steenwijkerland municipality, Overijssel province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
unofficial since c. 1938

Wanneperveen [former municipality]
Wanneperveen 1962 flag
Wanneperveen village flag

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Wanneperveen [former municipality]

Wanneperveen is a former municipality in Overijssel province; the first flag was probably used on the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 50 years reigning jubilee. It consists of the Overijssel provincial flag (at that time: horizontal red - yellow - blue), with in the canron the municipal arms. The three candles probably symbolize the three parishes in the municipality: Wanneper, Wanneperveen, and Dinksterveen. The CoA used to have the motto: Lux lucet in tenebris, the light shines in darkness, which was officially restored in 1958.
Source: Sierksma's De Gemeentewapens van Nederland, 1960.
Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Wanneperveen 1962 flag

by Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Wanneperveen is a former municipality in Overijssel province; the first flag was probably used on the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 50 years reigning jubilee.
In 1962 a new design was made: gironny of blue and red in seven pieces, where the red has a narrow white fringe.
This flag was designed before the municipal reorganization in Northwest Overijssel, but was never officially adopted. In 1973 Wanneperveen became part of the municipality of Brederwiede; that in its turn was made part of Steenwijk in 2001; in 2003 the new municipality of Steenwijkerland was created.
Source: Derkwillem Visser's "Gemeentewapens en vlaggen Koninkrijk der Nederlanden", 2001.
Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

Wanneperveen village flag

by Jarig Bakker, 25 Oct 2003

On the Wanneperveen homepage is the announcement that a new villageflag is on offer for € 25.
They write:
"The first flag consisted of three equallt wide horizontal stripes red - yellow - blue; in the canton over half of flagheight, a blue field with three yellow candlesticks, with white candles and red flames. In 1962 a new flag was designed (...) which was not officially adopted in 1970.
At the occasion of the 700 years of Wanneperveens existence the Feast Committee decided adopt a new "Wanneperveense vlag" based on the first flag, with the CoA taken out of the canton and replaced in the flagcenter.
I assume the Wanneperveense villageflag looks thus like this.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Oct 2003