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adopted 8 Jan 1982.
![[Obdam Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-nh)od.gif)
from Ralf Hartemink's website.
Granted 27 Nov 1979. The top contains the three wassenaars (crescents) of Obdam; the bottom the hen on the broek of Heinsbroek.
![[Obdam former municipality]](../images/n/nl-nh_ob.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 6 Apr 2005
Obdam is a municipality in Noord-Holland province between Alkmaar and
Hoorn.
The present municipality was formed in 1979 by the merger of the former
municipalities of Obdam and Hensbroek.
The old municipality had a flag adopted 12 Dec 1975, designed by the
Stichting Banistiek en Heraldiek, with the following description: Red with
three yellow crescents, two in the top half and one in the center below
them; each crescent of 4/9 flagheight. The flag is identical to the municipal
arms.
Source: Vexilla Nostra 15 (111), p. 120.
Jarig Bakker, 6 Apr 2005
![[Obdam former Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-nh)ob.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 6 Apr 2005, after Koffie Hag album
Granted 26 Jun 1816
Description: Gules three crescents or.
This is evidently connected to the family Wassenaar van Obdam ("wassenaar"
= crescent).
Jarig Bakker, 6 Apr 2005
by Jarig Bakker, 13 Jul 2003
Hensbroek is a former municipality in Noord-Holland province, now part
of Obdam. It was a small municipality with a little more than 1000 inhabitants.
It was founded as "Heynsbroec", meaning the marshy wetland of Heyn;
however local etymology preferred a different meaning - and that has been
made visual on Coat of Arms and flag.
Adopted 4 Sep 1962. Description: two vertical stripes of yellow and
red, of which the width relate as 1:3, cut in to half flaglength.
The colors were derived from the municipal arms. The municipal arms
are canting: a hen with a broek (trousers). The flag is equally
canting: a hen (red comb, crest) and a broek - here a swallow-tail.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62]
Jarig Bakker, 13 Jul 2003
According to Hans van Heijningen the upper and lower side of the flag
are not tapering but parallel.
Source: Vexilla Nostra no. 111 (nov.-dec. 1980), p. 102.
BTW, I always thought that the "broek" was made canting by the yellow
stripe at the "broeking" (Dutch for hoist).
Mark Sensen, 13 Jul 2003
![[Hensbroek Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-nh)hb.gif)
from Ralf Hartemink's website.
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