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Reeuwijk (The Netherlands)

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Reeuwijk municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net
adopted 7 Feb 1958 See also:

Bodegraven-Reeuwijk municipality

The municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk was created in 2011 by merging the two municipalities of Bodegraven and Reeuwijk. The new municipality decided to keep in use the flag of the former municipality of Bodegraven.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlag_van_Bodegraven-Reeuwijk
Valentin Poposki, 10 December 2023


Former Reeuwijk municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 January 2003): 12.904; area: 50,10 km². Settlements: Reeuwijk (seat), Driebruggen, Hogebrug, Reeuwijk-Brug, Reeuwijk-Dorp, Sluipwijk, Tempel, Waarder.
On 1 Jan 1989 the settlements of Driebruggen and Waatder (from the former municipality of Driebruggen) were added to the municipality of Reeuwijk. As a result the municipal arms were changed, but the flag stayed the same.
Flag description: four equally wide horizontal stripes of white, red, yellow, and blue.
This flag was adopted 7 February 1958. The colors are derived from the former municipal arms.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62].

Reeuwijk Coat of Arms

Reeuwijk Coat of Arms image from the Reeuwijk municipal site.

Granted 7 Dec 1989. The head on the white part belongs to a deer (Dutch: ree), making it canting. The (male) ducks on the blue part are "woerden", from the municipal arms of the former municipality of Waarder (abolished 1964).