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Adopted 17 February 1950 by the "Gedeputeerde Staten" (Deputed States, Provincial Legislature) of the province of Groningen. Official publication on 23 February 1950 in the "Provinciaal Blad" nr. 18, 1950.
Mark Sensen, 12 January 1998
Pantone colours: red: 032U; blue 300U; green: 355U; white: opaque.
Mark Sensen, 12 January 1998
Mark Sensen, 12 January 1998
In 1938 Queen Wilhelmina had reigned the Netherlands for 40 years. On that occasion a lot of municipalities paraded in front of HM with their flags, which consisted of the provincial flag with the municipal Coat of Arms in the canton (or something...). Those municipal flags can only be considered as 'curiosities', while the status of the provincial flags is not quite clear.
Jarig Bakker, 26 January 2001
"Quarterly; I and IV or, a double-headed eagle displayed sable; on his chest a small shield argent, a fess vert; II and III argent, three bends sinister azure, between eleven hearts gules, placed one, four, four and two, bend wise. The shield crested by a coronet of four pearls between five leaves or. Supporters: two lions rampant or."
Groningen is a province in the North of the Netherlands. The arms are
a combination of the arms of the city of Groningen and the so-called Ommelanden.
The Ommelanden (meaning something like surrounding countryside) were independent
of the city and part of Friesland. In 1476 Friesland
was divided and the Ommelanden became a territory under direct government
of the Emperor. Therefore new arms were necessary. The arms were derived
from the Danish arms. The legendary Frisian King Radboud had his origins
in Denmark and the Danish kings used the same arms with an additional lion.
The arms without the lion were therefore the old Frisian arms. In 1598
the arms of the city and the Ommelanden were combined when the whole territory
became one of the Dutch States.
In 1600 the arms were changed to its present form.
Proposal for a flag according to the arms by Van der Laars in 1913 in Van der Laars [Laa13]: I and IV City of Groningen, II and III Ommelanden.
Mark Sensen, 20 May 1998
In 1913 Van der Laars in Van der Laars [Laa13] proposed as provincial flag the flag of the Ommelanden with the central stripe changed to green to represent the city of Groningen.
As alternatives, he proposed horizontally-striped flags in the colours of the arms: green-white-blue-white-red-black-yellow, ....
.... or simplified: green-white-red-blue.
Mark Sensen, 12 January 1998