This page is part of an mirror of © FOTW Flags Of The World website

This website is devoted to the science of vexillology (the study of flags).
All illustrations presented on this website serve exclusively to provide information in the context of vexillology.
The authors and hosts of this site explicitly distance themselfes from any symbols of unconstitutional organizations that may be depicted here.

Britswert (The Netherlands)

Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Sep 2003
adopted 1999; Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma.

Britswert village (Britswerd)
Britswert coat of arms

See also:

Britswert village (Britswerd)

Britswert (Dutch: britswerd) is a village in Littenseradiel municipality, Fryslân; it used to be in the former municipality of Baarderadeel, with (1958) 154; (1974) 111 inhabitants. Virtually one village with Wiuwert. In the hamlet Kromwâl is a 350 years old shipyard, now specialized in yachts. In Kromwâl was also a "vermaning" - underground church - of the "menisten" (Baptists), which moved to Itens in 1863.
Nickname: "wetterpuollen" (water-puddles).
Britswert coat of arms: divided: I. red with in chief a golden anchor; II. blue with in chief a golden fleur-de-lis; in base a golden "terp" issuing from base, below it arched opened of the field and in this over all a golden clover.
Flag: two horizontal equally wide stripes of red and blue with over all a lying yellow anchor of which the shaft starts at 1/3 flag length and the point at 13/15 flag length, with a width of 1/10 flag height, and issuing from the anchor shaft over the imaginary lines of a hoist-triangle with the top at 1/3 flag length, in red a yellow clover and in blue a lily.
The Coat of Arms is divided in red and blue: red for the land and the shipping-industry at the Kromwâl; blue for the Britswerter Lake (made dry in 1855). The name of the village is represented in the bottom of the shield: brits = bridge, and "werd" = terp, mound. The arched opening also symbolizes the "meniste-vermaning" - the Baptist underground-church.
The clover in it refers to cattle-breeding and the meadows in the region. The fleur-de-lis refers to the lilies on the boards of the Britswerter Mar; the anchor belongs to the shipyard.
The flag is red and blue, like the coat of arms, with over all a combination of anchor, clover and lily.
Design: J.C. Terluin and R.J. Broersma
Source: Genealogysk Jierboekje 2001.
Encyclopedie van Friesland, 1958.
Baerderadiel: in Geakunde, 1977.
Jarig Bakker, 10 Sep 2003

Britswert coat of arms

from Wapens en Flaggen fan Littenseradiel, booklet of the municipality.

Advertisement from our sponsor:

Bei Fahnenversand.de erhalten Sie eine Vielzahl an hochwertigen Flaggen, Pins und Aufnähern, zum Beispiel:

Bestellen Sie Ihre Fahnen im Flaggen-Shop bei Fahnenversand.de