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A new flag was adopted 20 Dec 1986, designed by Mrs. Anneke de Nies-van
Dijk.
Description: per flydiagonal green over blue; over all the municipal
arms in the center.
The arms represent the municipality of Bergambacht, in the center of
the green Krimpenerwaard, which is cut in half by water (ditches and the
Lek river). The eagle is from the former Bergambacht flag and arms; the
salmon of Ammerstol, and the crescents from Berkenwoude.
The flag is the result of a design competition - and the result was
announced by stating that the High Council of Nobility probably wouldn't
agree to putting the full arms on the flag, but that there was a stand,
where people could sign for approval of the (unaffordable) flag.
That's why the Bergambachters are called "Katten" (cats), with nails
ready to attack their neighbouring enemies, especially the squeakmice of
Ammerstol, but if need be they are ready to break up the roads in order
to throw stones at the High Council of Nobility and others, whom they didn't
like, wherefore they are also nicknamed "stoneburrowers".
Source: Vexilla Nostra 15 (109) - 68; 22 (151) - 73.
Groot Schimpnamenboek van Nederland, by Dirk van der Heide, 1998.
Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2005
![[Bergambacht old flag]](../images/n/nl-zh_ba.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2005
Bergambacht is a municipality in Zuid-Holland province, a few km east
of Rotterdam. In 1985 it absorbed the ex-municipalities Ammerstol and Berkenwoude
(in good Dutch newspeak: a merger). Its old flag was then abolished, which
was:
square, divided in two equally long stripes; the first red with a hoist-diagonal
white stripe of 1/8 flagheight; the second stripe red
equally, charged with a white eagle.
This flag was adopted 13 May 1964 after advice by the High Council
of Nobility, and is identical to the municipal arms, which was: Per pale
1. gules a bend dexter argent; 2. gules an eagle argent;
Granted 14 Dec 1817
The left part of the flag is of course Linschoten
(or, as Sierksma suggest: the white river Lek flowing through the socialist
Bergambacht; the right part the arms of Arend van Arkel, who had a castle
here c. 1300, 's-Heer Aertsberg.
Source: Vexilla Nostra 15 (109) - 68; 22 (151) - 73.
Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2005
![[Bergambacht CoA]](../images/n/nl-zh)ba.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 29 Apr 2005
The new arms: gules an eagle argent, charged with three crescents noir;
in a wavy base azure a white salmon. The shield surmounted by a crown or
of three leaves and two pearls.