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Skettens (The Netherlands)

Wûnseradiel municipality, Fryslân province

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adopted 19 Apr 1955; design: Kl. Sierksma

Skettens village
Skettens Coat of Arms

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Skettens village

Skettens (Dutch: Schettens) is a village in Wûnseradiel municipality in the province of Fryslân.
Flag: per flydiagonal red - white - red - white; at the hoist the narrowed municipal flag.
adopted 1955; design: Kl. Sierksma.
Arms: per bend gules and argent; in gules a rose argent; in argent a fleur-de-lis gules.
The elements and colors are derived from the arms of the Osinga family, which had a "stins" (fortified house) in Skettens.
Skettens has c. 200 inhabtitants, but three churches. In the village-"terp" (mound) proto-Frisian pottery has been found.

Nickname: "keallepoaten" - calf's legs - local sirupy cake, dentist's delight!

Source: It Beaken, jrg. xxxi, # 3-4, Dec 1969
Encyclopedie van Friesland, 1958
Groot Schimpnamenboek van Nederland, by Dirk van der Heide, 1998
Jarig Bakker, 12 Apr 2005

Skettens Coat of Arms

by Jarig Bakker, 12 Apr 2005

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