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Eemsmond (The Netherlands)

Groningen province

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adopted 27 Jun 1991

• Eemsmond municipality
• Eemsmond Coat of Arms
• Uithuizen [former] municipality
• Uithuizermeeden [former] municipality
• Warffum [former] municipality
• Warffum Coat of Arms

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Eemsmond municipality

Eemsmond Coat of Arms

Granted 1 Jan 1990 - Ex Undis is Latin, meaning (wrestled) out of thewaves.

Uithuizen [former] municipality

Uithuizen is all arable land with huge farms and some old castles. Itadopted a flag on 2 Feb 1950, derived partly from
the Coat of Arms, pointing at the green meadows, the yellow corn and the deepblue sea (actually at that point not so very deep).
Jarig Bakker, 5 Jun 2003

Uithuizermeeden [former] municipality

Uithuizermeeden was the northernmost municipality of mainland Netherlands,and Roodeschool its northernmost village. To celebrate that there was abar open 24 hours a day (in the 1960's). The municipality adopted a flagon 5 Jun 1973.
Jarig Bakker, 5 Jun 2003

Warffum [former] municipality

Warffum is a former municipality in Groningen; since 1990 it is partof the municipality of Eemsmond, and it continues to use its symbols asvillage flag and Coat of Arms. Warffum used to be the northernmost municipalityof the Netherlands, as it contained the islands of Rottum, Rottumeroog,and Rottumerplaat (all ininhabited, but for a lonely writer, like GodfriedBomans, and later Jan Wolkers, who stayed there for a while to get thefeeling of real loneliness.
In 1980 the municipality considered the adoption of a flag, to be usedon festive occasions. In its meeting of 31 Oct 1985 the municipal councilresolved to adopted a municipal flag with the following description:
"Red, white, and red, proportioned 2:1:2, with towards the hoist awhite Maltese cross, the height of which is equal to 3/10 of flagheight"..
Jarig Bakker, 6 Jun 2003

Warffum Coat of Arms

Atthis webpageis the lengthy story of Warffum's Coat of Arms and flag:
Coat of Arms: In "van der Aa's Aardrijkskundig Woorden boek der Nederlanden,12de deel, 1849" one reads: The arms of Warffum consists of three guttedherrings. c. 1900 the municipal council was considering its arms. In themeeting of 29 Jul 1902 Burgemeester (Mayor) Bijlsma produced a design witha standing sword with two Maltese crosses. The council decided to senda request to the Queen to allow them to use the new arms. The High Councilof Nobility (advisory council to the Minister of Justice) objected, becauseof what van der Aa had written. Moreover the High Council was able to notethat there was in Bieuwketil in olden times a pub with a signboard, whichdepicted three fishes. The Council asked itself whether that pub in formertimes had served as court- or council house.
The Master of the Rolls in the province of Groningen, Mr. J.A. Feithpersuaded the Council that the pub had not been a courthouse and that theimage on the signboard had been the Coat of Arms of the noble family of Clant. Membersof that family had lived on the Breedenborg castle. He also pleaded thecase of the proposed Coat of Arms. The name of Warffum (Warfhem or Werfhem) wasmentioned already in charters of 1000; it was explained as "heem", theplace, where the "Warf" was held. The Warf is in the old Frisian law thepublic meeting where law was administered. In the late Middle Ages theWarf became a Court of Appeal. So Warffum had been an old court of lawand the sword was justified. The two Maltese crosses symbolize the presenceof the former monastery of Maltese knights in Warffum, which was knownfor the vast extent of its possessions.
On 12 Oct 1903 the Queen granted Warffum its Coat of Arms.

Since some years the former pub "Rust een weinig" (rest a while)along the towing-path to Onderdendam at the Bieuwketil has a signboardwith the three fishes.
Jarig Bakker, 6 Jun 2003