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Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
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image from the Heerenveen municipal
website.
Since 24 Oct 1935 the municipality of Heerenveen has its own CoA. Description:
in the blue left part a broken wheel of silver and a silver sword, representing
maintenance of law. In the silver right part is a green planted tree with
on both sides a black block, symbolizing the presence of forests and peat-digging.
Jarig Bakker, 29 May 2003
![[Aengwirden CoA]](../images/n/nl-fr)ae.gif)
International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/
Aengwirden was the second "grietenij" (municipality) of the old Zevenwouden
division, northeast of Heerenveen; four villages: Gersloot, Tjalleberd,
Luinjeberd and Terband.
CoA: in silver three green trees on a green base and between the trees
and the shieldborder four black peatblocks.
This former municipality never had a flag. The four villages all hace
a CoA; a flag has been designed; should it be adopted it will be representing
all villages.
In 1934 this municipality became part of Schoterland; the merger received
the new name of Heerenveen.
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Bontebok (meaning: spotted billygoat) was a hamlet of the village of
Nieuwehorne along the Schoterlandse Compagnonsvaart (another canal to transport
peat), named after a former pub. There was a lock here, and a dairy factory.
CoA: in blue a (black-white) billygoat, standing on a green meadow.
Flag: divided in four over 1/3 of flaglength of yellow and red; over
the dividing lines a blue cross with a width of 1/10 flagheight. In the
canton a standing (black-white) multicolored billygoat and at hoistbottom
a peat-spade and an "oplizzer" (another peat-implement), in saltire,
with the handles on top, all yellow.
Bontebok was originally a pub with the name "Bonte Bock", at
the place where the footpath from Nijhorne to Gersloot and the Compagnonsvaart.
There was also a lock to regulate the waterlevel. Around the pub and that
crossing a hamlet developed with the name of the pub: Bontebok. In 1979
the hamlet received the village-status.
The village did already have a CoA, derived from the advertisinbg sign
of the pub. In 1997 the society for village interests started to develop
a plan for a villageflag.
The flag is dividided in four parts, a so-called Scandinavian cross.
In the canton is the multicolored billygoat from the arms; the yellow color
of this quarter and the fourth quarter signify sandy soil. Bontebok is
on a high sandridge. In the red quarter in the hoistbottom are two peat-implements
iof yellow. The peat-spade (jutte) was used at making "baggelders"
(short peat-blocks); the "oplizzer" was used for digging off "turven"
(long rectangular peat-blocks). The color red represents heather. The blue
cross the Compagnonsvaart and the roadcrossing.
Design flag: J.C. Terluin, after consulation of "Pleatslik Belang".
Source: Genealogysk Jierboekje 1997.
Jarig Bakker, 24 Aug 2003
![[Bontebok CoA]](../images/n/nl-fr)bb.gif){kind=small}
from the Bontebokster website. (there
are 3 different billygoatarms, but this is the real thing. bééééh!
![[Jubbega village flag]](../images/n/nl-fr_ju.gif)
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Jubbega is a long village in Heerenveen municipality, Fryslân,
and its flag can be bought at this
webpage. It appears that there was some fuss about it, but I'm no subscriber
to the Heerenveenster Courier, so I'm unable to tell the gruelling story.
The letters JSH stand for Jubbega - Schurega - Hoornsterzwaag; Jubbega-Schurega
is the official name of the village, and Hoornsterzwaag is a few kilometers
away (I suppose they form in practice one village). To Jubbega belongs
Jubbegaastercompagnie, and to Hoornsterzwaag Hoornsterzwaagcompagnie, as
well as Jubbega Derde Sluis - names
reminding of the old peat-digging days.
The flag was designed in 1997.
Jarig Bakker, 8 Jun 2003