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![[Flag of Lindesnes]](../images/n/no-lind20.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 28 November 2024See Also:
![[Flag of Lindesnes]](../images/n/no-10-29.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 26 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Lindesnes. Administrative center is
Vigeland.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1986-04-25-1033?q=flagg
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 30 December 2015
![[COA of Lindesnes]](../images/n/no)10-29.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 30 December 2015
Blazon: I blått et oppvoksende sølv fyrtårn. In English: Azure a lighthouse
issuant argent.
Approved by the royal resolution of 25 April 1986 after a drawing by Truls
Nygaard after a design by Rolf Dybvig. [c2j87]
The Lindesnes municipality was created in 1964 by union of three previous
municipalities of Spangereid, Sør-Audnedal, and Vigmostad. At the time it was
given name after the lighthouse at the southernmost tip of the Norwegian coast
(known in English as the Nase). The lighthouse was first built in 1655 as the
oldest Norwegian lighthouse. It was closed a few times and the current tower,
depicted in the arms was built only in 1915. [c2j87] felt a need to explain that
the medieval heraldry knew not of lighthouses as tower, only depicting fortress
towers, but that the design was approved nevertheless for being well
recognizable and simple enough. On may also add that, even if the design was not
known in period heraldry (although I think one may find examples outside
Norway), the concept of the lighthouse facility was known from pre-medieval
ancient times with the light tower of Alexandria being a famous example -
therefore its is not "modern" device...
Željko Heimer, 01 January 2016
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