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Vinkeveen (The Netherlands)

Utrecht province

image located by Valentin Poposki, 12 November 2025

Vinkeveen village flag
Vinkeveen former municipality
Vinkeveen en Waverveen Coat of Arms
Vinkeveen Coat of Arms
Waverveen

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Vinkeveen village flag

The flag was adopted as the village flag of Vinkeveen at an unknown date around 2005. The flag is directly derived from the corresponding village coat of arms and consists of three parts. In the upper left corner is a dark blue area containing the yellow silhouette of a finch. Together with the peat blocks in the white area, this forms a striking element that refers to the village name. The flag of Vinkeveen also has several variations. One flag bears the text "Vinkeveen heeft meer" (Vinkeveen has more). The upper right area of the flag represents the flag of Waverveen, a village that was incorporated into the former municipality of Vinkeveen. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlag_van_Vinkeveen
Valentin Poposki, 12 November 2025

Variant flag

by Jarig Bakker, 13 March 2005
adopted c. 2000

Stefan Lambrechts spotted this village flag of Vinkeveen at an Ebay-page: The flag is white, with the coat of arms of the former municipality of Vinkeveen en Waverveen in Utrecht province, between vertical black letters "VINKEVEEN" and "HEEFT MEER" (= Vinkeveen has more)
That former municipality is now in De Ronde Venen.

The text is possibly a pun at the alternative name of the soccerclub "AFC AJAX-Amsterdan": "FC Vinkeveen" - in the 1970s some players became by their successes so rich that they could easily afford a Maserati and a bungalow in Vinkeveen. At the time Ajax' home was the Ajax-stadium in the Watergraafsmeer, in southeast Amsterdam, popularly known as "De Meer".
OTOH Vinkeveen is the center of the lake ("meer") area known as the Vinkeveense Plassen, so the MEER may refer to that; or "we've got more" may refer to the fact that the ordinary Vinkevener has got more (money).
Jarig Bakker, 13 March 2005

Vinkeveen former municipality

by Jarig Bakker, 20 September 2004
adopted 10 May 1973

Description of the old Vinkeveen flag: three stripes of blue, yellow and red proportioned 1:2:1, the yellow stripe with two rows of black blocks of 1/6 flag height and 1/3 flag length, each touching with ¼ of a block.
Adopted 10 May 1973 by municipal resolution.
Source: Derkwillem Visser's Gemeentevlaggen en wapens Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 2001.
Vinkeveen en Waverveen was until 1 Jan 1989 a municipality; it then merged with Mijdrecht, and Wilnis, to form the new municipality of De Ronde Venen.
Jarig Bakker, 20 September 2004

Vinkeveen en Waverveen Coat of Arms

by Jarig Bakker, 13 March 2005
Granted by Royal Resolution 4 May 1972

The Vinkeveen en Waverveen Coat of Arms: per fess; I. a azure a finch or; b. gules a fess or charged with two saltires noir; II. argent three peatblocks noir, touching each other, placed 1 and 2.
Jarig Bakker, 13 March 2005

Vinkeveen Coat of Arms

by Jarig Bakker, 13 March 2005
Granted 10 Jun 1818

The Vinkeveen Coat of Arms: per fess; I. a azure a finch or; II. argent three peatblocks noir, touching each other, placed 1 and 2.
Vinkeveen and Waverveen formed one municipality, but each village had its own coat of arms. For Vinkeveen the finch made it canting, as well as the (light) peat blocks - "vink" = finch; "vink(e)" (old Dutch) = light peat; "veen" = peatground.
Jarig Bakker, 13 March 2005

Waverveen

image located by Valentin Poposki, 12 November 2025

Shield

image located by Valentin Poposki, 12 November 2025

Village of Waverveen - uses a white flag with the village coat of arms. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverveen
Valentin Poposki, 12 November 2025