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Zelhem (The Netherlands)

Gelderland province

Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net/flags.htm
adopted 25 Aug 1938

Zelhem municipality
Zelhem Coat of Arms

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Zelhem municipality

Population (1 Jan 2003): 11.199; area: 81,92 km². Settlements: Zelhem (seat), De Meene, Halle, Halle-Heide, Halle-Nijman, Heidenhoek, Heurne (part), Oosterwijk, Velswijk, Wassinkbrink, Winkelshoek, Wittebrink.
Zelhem is in souteast Gelderland. C. 800 the missionary Ludger founded a chapel here. The name was first used in 1152 as 'Selenum' (place of peace - a very appropriate name IMO)
Flag adopted 25 Aug 1938 by municipal resolution.
Description: two equally wide horizontal stripes of yellow and blue, with the municipal arms in the canton.
This is the flag of Gelderland province in 1938, with the arms in the canton - the parading flag at the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 40 year reigning celebration in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
Jarig Bakker, 24 Oct 1999

On 1 January 2004 the new municipality of Bronckhorst (Gelderland) was formed out of the merger of Hengelo (Gld), Hummelo en Keppel, Steenderen, Vorden and Zelhem.

Zelhem Coat of Arms

from http://www.ngw.nl/.
Granted 20 Feb 1816.