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Landerd (The Netherlands)

Noord-Brabant province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
adopted 6 Jul 1994.

Landerd municipality

Landerd Coat of Arms

Schaijk

Schaijk Coat of Arms
Reek Coat of Arms

Zeeland

Zeeland Coat of Arms

See also:

Landerd municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 14.706; area: 70,68 km². Settlements: Zeeland (seat), Reek, Schaijk.
Landerd is a merger of the former municipalities of Schaijk and Zeeland on 1 Jan 1994. Schaijk was formed by the merger of the former municipalities of Schaijk and Reek in 1942.
Flagdescription: "White, with issuing from 1/3 flaglength a green hoist-chevron, of which the arms have a width equal to 1/7 flaglength, reaching into the fly. On the center of the separation of hoist and fly a red four-leaved flower, at the height of 4/7 of flag-height".

Landerd Coat of Arms

International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Landerd

Granted 4 Oct 1994

Schaijk (former municipality

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

adopted 28 Jun 1962.

Schaijk Coat of Arms

See International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Schaijk

The Coat of Arms of Schaijk is a combination of the Coat of Arms's of 2 former municipalities that merged, Schaijk and Reek (sometime in 1942)

Reek Coat of Arms

See International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Reek

Zeeland (former municipality

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

Flag adopted 30 Mar 1977.
Zeeland was founded around scattered farms, where peat-exploitation took place. The Latin name for such a farm was "Sala", in MiddleDutch "sale" or "sele". So it became "Sele-land" - hence Zeeland. Its name was not derived from the sea on its Coat of Arms!

Zeeland Coat of Arms

See International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Zeeland_(NB)

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