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Den Haag municipality, Zuid-Holland province
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by Jarig Bakker, 8 Sep 2003
proposal only!
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Kijkduin flag (proposal)
Kijkduin is a bathing resort and a city-ward near Loosduinen, in southwest
's Gravenhage (the Hague), Zuid-Holland province. Not to be confused with
the high dune near Den Helder (Noord-Holland), where we all watched how
Michiel A. de Ruyter clobbered the English and French fleets in 1673.
According to research by "Kijkduinse kringen" Kijkduin's history is
older than the history of the Hague, and for a long time has been a separate
village. There was even a union with Poeldijk, Ter Heyde, and Monster-Ambacht,
although Kijkduin was virtually uninhabited. In 1811 Kijkduin was added
to Loosduinen, and in 1923 to the Hague.
The designer Hans van Lieshout has drawn a coat of arms which shows on a blue
field three golden connected dunes, with behind the third dune the head
of a stork, beaked red. In base two wavy stripes of blue and silver.
The flag is an exact representation of the arms. Kijkduin means: watch
dune - the stork (of the coat of arms of 's Gravenhage) is watching the dune!
The question is whether the municipal council of the Hague is willing
to approve it - if only to reduce the clattering of arms about the coat of arms
and flag of Scheveningen.
Source: Haagsche Courant, March 1964.
From: Vlaggen-Info nr. 103, Spring 2001.
<this is one of the last contributions of Derkwillem Visser to his
own bulletin, and to Dutch vexillology before his sad demise>
Jarig Bakker, 8 Sep 2003
Kijkduin coat of arms (proposal)
From: Vlaggen-Info nr. 103, Spring 2001.