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Hillegom (The Netherlands)

Zuid-Holland province

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adopted 9 Feb 1951

Hillegom municipality
Hillegom old flag
Hillegom Coat of Arms

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Hillegom municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 20.670; area: 13,48 km². Settlements: Hillegom (seat).
Hillegom is a municipality in Zuid-Holland province, famous for its flowerbulbs.
Flag: three horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red.
Adopted 9 Feb 1951 by municipal resolution.
-- Jarig Bakker, 26 May 2005

Hillegom old flag

by Jarig Bakker, 26 May 2005
in use c. 1939

According to "Wie, Wat, Waar? 1940", an annual published by the Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad in Nov. 1939, the flag of Hillegom was:
three horizontal stripes red - yellow - green, with in the center of yellow the municipal arms, with red and yellow reversed.
Jarig Bakker, 26 May 2005

Hillegom Coat of Arms

by Jarig Bakker, 26 May 2005
Granted 24 Jul 1816

Arms: or a fess vert with three fleurs-de-lis gules, placed 2,1.
This is the coat of arms of the van Hillegom family, which had a blue fess.

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