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Lemmer (The Netherlands)

De Fryske Marren municipality, Fryslân province

image located by Valentin Poposki, 23 December 2023

Village flag
Old Lemmer village flag (?)
Old Lemmer village coat of arms

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Village flag

From https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlag_van_Lemmer:

The Lemmer flag was adopted by the village of Lemmer in 2015. It is described as:

Five horizontal stripes of white, red, yellow, red and white, the widths of which are 1:1:2:1:1. The colors come from the municipal coat of arms of Lemsterland.

Valentin Poposki, 23 December 2023

Old Lemmer village flag (?)

image by Jarig Bakker, 6 August 2003

Lemmer is the seat of the municipality of Lemsterland in southern Fryslân, bordering on Flevoland. It is an old village with a small cosy harbour and a great restaurant, where you can for a very decent price eat tasty fish. It is also the village of the best speed-skater of all times, Rintje Ritsma (at least according to himself).
The coat of arms of Lemmer was azure, with a white cloud, from which an arm emerges with a black sleeve, holding a swallow-tailed flag: black with a white Scandinavian-type cross.
Source: Encyclopedie van Friesland, 1958.

The village flag was: a green swallow-tailed flag with a red cross.
(according to Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62] Sierksma has no image; it appears from the coat of arms that it is a centered cross, not taking in account the swallow-tail...
Jarig Bakker, 6 August 2003

Old Lemmer village coat of arms

by Jarig Bakker, 6 August 2003

The coat of arms of Lemmer was azure, with a white cloud, from which an arm emerges with a black sleeve, holding a swallow-tailed flag: black with a white Scandinavian-type cross.
Source: Encyclopedie van Friesland, 1958.
Jarig Bakker, 6 August 2003