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Koggenland is a municipality in North Holland province and the region of
West-Frisia. It came into existence on 1 January 2007 upon the merger of the two former municipalities of Obdam and Wester-Koggenland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koggenland
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adopted 8 January 1982.
![[Obdam Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-nh)od.gif)
from Ralf Hartemink's website.
Granted 27 November 1979. The top contains the three wassenaars (crescents) of Obdam; the bottom the hen on the broek of Heinsbroek.
![[Obdam former municipality]](../images/n/nl-nh_ob.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 6 April 2005
Obdam is a municipality in Noord-Holland province between Alkmaar and
Hoorn.
The present municipality was formed in 1979 by the merger of the former
municipalities of Obdam and Hensbroek.
The old municipality had a flag adopted 12 Dec 1975, designed by the
Stichting Banistiek en Heraldiek, with the following description: Red with
three yellow crescents, two in the top half and one in the center below
them; each crescent of 4/9 flagheight. The flag is identical to the municipal
arms.
Source: Vexilla Nostra 15 (111), p. 120.
Jarig Bakker, 6 April 2005
![[Obdam former Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-nh)ob.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 6 April 2005, after Koffie Hag album
Granted 26 June 1816
Description: Gules three crescents or.
This is evidently connected to the family Wassenaar van Obdam ("wassenaar"
= crescent).
Jarig Bakker, 6 April 2005
by Jarig Bakker, 13 July 2003
Hensbroek is a former municipality in Noord-Holland province, now part
of Obdam. It was a small municipality with a little more than 1000 inhabitants.
It was founded as "Heynsbroec", meaning the marshy wetland of Heyn;
however local etymology preferred a different meaning - and that has been
made visual on Coat of Arms and flag.
Adopted 4 September 1962. Description: two vertical stripes of yellow and
red, of which the width relate as 1:3, cut in to half flag-length.
The colors were derived from the municipal arms. The municipal arms
are canting: a hen with a broek (trousers). The flag is equally
canting: a hen (red comb, crest) and a broek - here a swallow-tail.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62]
Jarig Bakker, 13 July 2003
According to Hans van Heijningen the upper and lower side of the flag
are not tapering but parallel.
Source: Vexilla Nostra no. 111 (nov.-dec. 1980), p. 102.
I always thought that the "broek" was made canting by the yellow
stripe at the "broeking" (Dutch for hoist).
Mark Sensen, 13 July 2003
![[Hensbroek Coat of Arms]](../images/n/nl-nh)hb.gif)
from Ralf Hartemink's website.
The flag maker at https://www.mastenenvlaggen.nl/product/dorpsvlag-ursem advertises a concept village flag for the North Holland village of Ursem. The flag was designed by their design studio in 2023 because Ursem does not (yet) have its own flag. The design is based on the associated village coat of arms, which dates from 1817. This coat of arms was used at the time as a municipal coat of arms for the former municipality of Ursem. This municipality has been abolished since 1979. Nowadays Ursem falls under the municipality of Koggenland.
The proposed Ursem flag is yellow in color and features a red standing lion with a turned head. This depicts a Dutch lion, just as can be seen on the provincial flag of South Holland. However, on that flag the lion looks straight ahead. Ultimately, both flag and coat of arms of Ursem were traced back to the coat of arms of Holland.
Valentin Poposki, 3 December 2023
